Massive Attack

The rending of the flesh and the gnashing of the teeth
I want to watch you walk till we both collapse in the heat
Don't torture me with those complex concepts and
fly into a rage when I'm struck dumb and impotent.

Spend a week with me in the desert, under the dust.
Climb a dune and watch the world disintegrate on a lawn chair.
What happens when your name turns to ash in my mouth
and I retreat back with the beetles into a devil's nest?

Life Round Here

Bitch, you're back on square one
watch your brain expand and contract
like a puffer fish in the baking sun
like a sidewalk where an egg could run

Recalibrate your mind, tinker with the gauges
All the old is new, a frightening sheen for an adult toddler

Brick Ocean

There's a roach nested in a barnacle on the back of my brain
I like to feed him maraschino cherries and lettuce romaine
My roach twitters and squeals.
Disgust and delight, rosy red cheeks take a bite.
The water's great, come on in
Forget the red brick ocean
Where you saw sea monsters roil beneath the waves
Behind the chapel, between the benches.

If you look in the mirror long enough
You experience the tooth complete its circle
Piercing your skull in that middling place
Where thoughts become practice.