Avey Tare

Laughing Hieroglyphic

The flies in the dark with their ways

Of shedding some light, now I've lost all my day

I think they are very lucky

With internal parts like illumined sun rays

It's so easy to get

Lost in the mixture

When forces strike hard

You wear your layers or you'll shiver

I didn't think you were

Struggling so long

With all of the wild things

That we took so young

How it must have wrapped you up

And left you hanging upside-down

When I was too busy getting lost in

The big sound, the big sound

Now I'd trade in all I'd saved

To fly to those nights and ask, "How are you brother?"

If we could have just engaged

I'd have enhanced my weakness in comforting others

But the words are all jumbled and faded

My heart is a nurse, but my tongue's in the blender

Now it's become something creative

I know it's not much, but just let it right into your gut

And hold me, I've been sad for days

The light does change its gifts, every hour's devoured

But the same things haunt me, what's haunting you?

Lately I've been seeing beings

They look like they float at the back of my headroom

I don't find it strange, but I'm talking to you

Lion in your dreams,

The lion is good for your dreams, accept the lion

The lion would probably try and come and embrace you too

And when I get fucked up, I'll do the best

To make myself not fucked up again, my heart and my lungs too