Jandek

Bluff Brink

Jandek


Bless you cleric under your coats 
With the tools of your trade 
Poison bottle that you hold 
The keys of time you spend in a trance 
They know their lives in your hand 
And you create all your disabilities 
You feel good about your wasting away 
And all the circles that you dance around 
Your swirling, whirling, dizzy sick 
And you don't care who's around 
Their reality doesn't enter your thoughts 
You're walking stupid and stumbling about 
I've got to tell you that I really think 
You're on some kind of canyon bluff brink 
Why don't you jump and forget about it 
But you don't have to be around 
The way the day just flutters by 
You're in a coma and the earth is the sky 
Your left is right, and it's all mixed up 
And you keep playing that game all the time 
I've come around and I see you this way 
I'll go away, I've just got to say 
I've got my own tornado 
And my own mountain 
And I'll swirl in a whirl and stare from the top 
The world is big and the people so small 
I can't possibly care about it all