Indigo Girls

Pendulum Swinger

Indigo Girls


I meet you for coffee 
We get together periodically 
I got a bad case I can't shake off of me 
The fevered walking round wondering how it ought to be 
You work in the system 
You see possibilities and your glistening 
Eyes show the hell you're gonna give 'em 
When they back off the mic for once and give it to a woman 

I dream like a mad one 
Brutal fantasies I catch as catch can 
I'm a psychic and a laywoman 
I see love and I like to make it happen 
What we get from your war walk 
Ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock 
I want the pendulum to swing again 
So that all your mighty mandate was just spitting in the wind 

It doesn't come by the bullwhip 
It's not persuaded with your hands on your hips 
Not the company of gunslingers 
The epicenter love is the pendulum swinger 
She is she is she is 

It's fine about the old scroll Sanskrit 
Gnostic gospels the da vinci code a smash hit 
Aren't we dying just to read it and relate 
Too hard just to go by a blind faith 
But they left out the sisters 
Praying to a father god so long I really missed her 
The goddess of benevolence 
You should listen to your mama if you have a lick of sense left 

Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress 
Relegated by the Vatican 
But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again 

If we're a drop in the bucket 
With just enough science to keep from saying fuck it 
Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light 
Plenty revolutions left until we get this thing right