Flowers all over the ground
Glass and blood, grass and pavement: Middletown.
When the sun rises over the river
It shines through glass and plastic
Onto lovers, friends, and strangers
Covered by velour.

Grandma built me a car
It’ll get me to wherever you are
She’s got a bionic brain
And grease all over her hands
When she does mathematics
We get static on grandpa’s wedding band.
And when I get there
I won’t smell like musk or patchouli
It’ll be new car and gasoline.

We’re in love with the hand and the glove
With the fish and the bowl and the canary and the coal mine
Eyes behind glass, vinyl covered ass,
Brain in formaldehyde, yes, we’re still in love.

We float between the lines of the dance
Making love you got grass stains on your pants.
Mom spilled molten lead on the tulips
Kissing cousins in a steel brace lip lock
Let's cracks an egg to love
And fry it on our engine block
Your neighbor's got a metal hoop running through his cock.