origin of the world

Singer:keenan, david

i'm singing this song in an act of rebellion

but if i wear a white shirt

will my appearance seem clean?

i've emptied my skull of stale symbolism

from my fingers i scrubbed you like a nicotine stain

craving some daylight and the sobering cold

oh

i have heard of that deity from a yarn i've been told

by an elder of our tribe with the mind of a hunter

he'd the spirit of a bird and the soul of an orphan

he released in me wisdom and happy endorphins

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

so i let out a whistle

and my hand came a yelping

yelping

our diana

she bathes in that there pond beyond those ditches

i hear the act of contrition from christopher hitchens

sends the opium smoker off

off

off to the astral plane

then i move through the forest while unraveling the linen

i had placed on my chiseled and the well-worn blade

from her tongue and her teeth

i bear the marks of a slave

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

being chased by this beast

how many young fellas died?

poets digging their trenches have been buried

buried alive

by this clandestine creature with the kill in her eyes

though would luna and lupa both be made from the den

if they gazed even once into the origin of man?

ah

would luna and lupa be put to the sword

if they dared even once touch the origin of the world?

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

wish me luck

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love with a woman friend

wish me luck

i'm in trouble

i'm in trouble again

i'm in love

i'm in love with a woman friend

Lyric Context: origin of the world - keenan, david