Don’t We Get By?

will the astonishment kill me can i die from being blown aghast somewhere out there a whale is swimmin. hey! and when i find it i will know at last I seenthe silversmiths in baghdad and bosra i laid eyes on them alone i'm talking bout dimensions i'm talkin bout ascending my soul's gonna know to come to me when I'm home trace me back a thousand mothers maybe time is jus a magazine i wanna tell all the things I know how a mind can really grow but then again, i ain't ever been unconditional love has conditions, love ask anyone, they know best i thought that jesus was for everyone i picked the wrong flavor christ I guess but don't we get by don't we get by don't we get by alright? the skeletons of the living dead amongst us lived and laughed and loved so bitterly they said "you had better hate all the people that I hate" "you better wear the same skin as me" i've seen camels weave themselves through needles i've seen angels avoid the eyes of the dead still blessed are the meek the geeks and the freaks blessed are cursed instead but don't we get by don't we get by don't we get by alright? there are mesopotamian visions and then again, there are midwestern dreams i built a trebuchet to jump the wall and see 'em while they were quarrying the colosseum i saw a copy of the facsimile