I'm here To entertain To play ukelele while ****** addicts in Prague score plump ***** poppies Under a lazy summer sun And their flirtations with death and their pursuit of high doses of deep oblivion Are reduced to a journalist's article submission and the breathing, sweating, bleeding men and women are now Still lights and colors in an image we can cast blank stares at I play guitar And the sound of riots that burned and looted chunks of Baltimore is now poignant accompaniement For my dainty melodies The hurling of insults, bottles and teargas Are just the blazes of Rome for my fiddle I'm here As your fellow Rwandan and neighbor to **** your daughter when our party has declared war upon yours To chase you and your surviving family with machetes through the thick marshes that surround our farms And then later mold that nightmarish scenery into a short video in which I Beg you and the world for the sweet relief of forgiveness In the background I'll play a grand piano I'm calling you To perform my executive duty and express my heartfelt condolences for the death of your young husband Whose name I've already forgotten and need to ask you for Your reaction will be televised between toilet paper advertisements and blatant social conditioning
The pretty melody will continue throughout the daily openings of Hands arms legs eyes mouths cans boxes doors gates hearts minds And I'm not bitter or mad and I dont want you to be either You think I'll leave you because a client got you pregnant but I wont I'm here to take care of you in your 60usd hotel room when youre too sick to work I'm still holding you tight after your close friend overdosed in the bathroom and died I'm keeping my composure when the interviewer casually asks me if I hate everyone who doesn't look like me I'm cheating all of my factory workers out of ever getting paid well And then I'm sending them overseas to steal the jobs of college grads we hired I'm being born while hundreds of people drown on the MS Estonia And I'm dying from choking on a salty tortilla chip
Yet Still The notes will calmly drift Amidst the gunfire between rebels and regime in the rubble-laden deserts of Syria Amidst the firm commands from Green Beret cadre to candidate in the lush woods of Camp Mackall Through the inconviently fatal exit wounds in my teenaged chest and the large caliber bullet holes in cheap beer cans I'm shooting for practice I'm not telling you this so you can squeeze our experiences into a mondo film that ego-tripping critics will loathe I just want you to not fixate so harshly on the particulars of how the codes you crack end someone's life on the other side of the world And realize for a moment how many of your relationships are just thinly veiled plays made between you and your rut-enabling neuro transmitter dealer I just want you to walk across this beautiful, extraordinary earth where giant beasts stomped and loving parents were murdered Walk right over to where I am And strum these strings Entertain While this world lives and breathes and pukes and cries and sings