Manhattan

(album: Tilt - 1995)

Here you
are boy
here you are

Here you
are boy
Here you are

Here you
are boy
Here you are

I tip to Bengal
tip to Somal
I tip to Burmese
tip Kenyanese
see them sliding
through the sun

I tip Havanian
Abyssinian
Here Alaskan
Here Corsican

See them sliding
through the sun

it's on me
all my life
On me
all my life

Scalper
in the lampglow
scalper
on a chair

stick wiped
shirt?

and his arm
somewhere

Fleur de Lis
le wrist is
connected

chief of police
a la collar
bones disconnected

and here you
are boy
here you are

and hear the
word of the
lord

I tip to Bengal
no
he tips to
Bengal
tips to Somal

tips to Burmese
tips Kenyanese

See them sliding
through the sun

Scalper
in the lampglow
scalper
everywhere

stick wiped shirt?

say something
round that
shredded dirt

Say Fleur de Lis
Le jaw bone
connected

chief of police
a la ankles
connected

And here you
are boy
here you are

here you
are boy
here you are

he tips Havanian
tips Abyssinian
here Alaskan
here Corsican

we tip to
Russo