Music

Permafrost   Year: 2005

Written by Bill Mallonee for CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) ©2005

we were all iced in for months
and darkness was like ink
the cold well it makes your mind go numb
and hell is when you have to think
about the science that has failed you
and the calibrations were all wrong
it's the stuff of shakespeare closing acts
and the popular song

now men are known to tell such tales
to keep the ghosts at bay
and for a season it may work well
but ghosts they don't usually stay away
there's battle's against nature
and her harsher elements
and the heart well that's the battleground
where all this cold stuff went

and it's written down in notebooks
and it's implied in every hymn
these longings that go way past words
so kids can catch a glimpse

there are some grisly elements
but ain't that just like life
there are limits to civility
when it's packed in snow and ice
and glory's convictions are replaced
with doubts about the costs
and remember your footprint makes no impression
in the permafrost in the permafrost

and it's written down on napkins
like a figure in your head
and passed beneath the table
and it's underlined in red
it has a strange finality
just like a farewell kiss
and your mind well it's still reeling
wondering how it came to this

i've had dreams of fire
almost every night
i've had dreams of angels too
but something wasn't quite right
something loud and loathsome
and dark in my conscience
i'd a ripped it all out by the roots
if i could have put my finger on it

all the secrets in the board rooms
have all been brought to light
and the deals that went down hard by day
are now up for grabs tonight
and they cower in their nakedness
at something so pure and bright
my fingers they were warmer
and my eyes beheld a sight
of the harlot heart in all of us
being banished to the cold
it doesn't talk it swears instead
just like my rock and roll

now i've told you bits and pieces
and now my pen is spent
and my tongue will soon grow silent
life's not a run-on sentence
every skeleton is a sermon
and none of it is veiled
it is obvious to everyone
like the bars of lucifer's jail

you can throw back a double
of a brand that is top shelf
you can put it up your nose
stick a needle in yourself
the era will anesthetize for free
but remember numbness has a cost
and your footprint makes on impression
in the permafrost in the permafrost

 

 

 

 

 

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