consequence of sounds

Singer:spektor, regina

my rhyme ain't good just yet

my brain and tongue just met

and they ain't friends

so far

my words don't travel far

they tangle in my hair

and tend to go nowhere

they grow right back inside

right past my brain and eyes

into my stomach juice

where they don't serve much use

no healthy calories

nutrition values. and i absorb back in

the words right through my skin

they sit there festering inside my bowels

the consonants and vowels

the consequence of sounds

the consonants and vowels

the consequence of sounds

got a soundtrack in my mind

all the time. kids-

screamin' from too much beat up

and they don't even rhyme

they just stand there

on a street corner

skin tucked in

and meat side out and shot

and i'd like to turn them down

but there ain't no knob. run into picket fences

not into picket lines. all this hippie-shit for the 60's

and another clich for our time. but

but a one of these days your heart

will just stop ticking

and they sorta just don't find you till your cubicle is reeking. the consonants and vowels

the consequence of sounds

the consonants and vowels

the consequence of sounds

ahh ah ah ah ahh ah ah ah

did you know that the gravedigger's still

gettin' stuck in the machine

even tough it's a whole other daydream. it's another town it's another world

where the kids are asleep

where the loans are paid

and the lawns are mowed. whad'ya think?

all the gravediggers were gone?

just cause one song is done

there's always another one

waiting right around the bend

till this one ends

then it begins

squeaky clean

then it starts all over again. the weather report keeps on

tossing and turning

predicting and warning

and warning and warning of

possible leakage from news publications and

possible leakage from news tv stations. that very same morning right next to her coffee

she noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing and

national geographic was being too graphic

when all she had wanted to know was the traffic

the worlds got a nosebleed" it said