Who Touches Who Lyrics
©2004 Felix Sarco
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Bubble Boy
Hi-Mi Hawks and Doves
Prophecy of the Olive Branch
White Nectarines
6:1
Once Upon a Mountain Top


Bubble Boy

Bubble boy was born and walking well at age 18
And though he wished to walk before
He was the weakest I had seen
Ma's debating belly
Kept his shelling yelling loud
In hopes of being cracked and broken
For that's how it has to be

  Run bubble boy

Roll

  He walked before he crawled
And so he fell flat on his face
So then he crawled before he walked
And he got walked on in it's place
I guess the only thing he learned
Is that he moves to slow
And now he's running every fucking place he goes

  Rolling fast and steaming fine
This engine was at age one-nine
With shattered shell-o-plenty
20 too, was left behind
He quickly learned the rules and the tools
Of the racing tunnel rats
He picked all four up off the ground
And wound up rolling fat and slow

  He won't walk crawl or cry around here anymore

(Run)

He won't crawl walk or cry around here anymore

  He never really had a good reason to live
Not one to give
And not one to take
A make or break life wasn't fitting a full grown boy
With the will to fill an empty womb
So he rolled away

  Run, Run, Run, Run, then roll, roll, Run, roll

Run Run Roll away  

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HI-MI Hawks and Doves

  Disarm?  Might makes right, so we don’t have to.  Besides, its the enemy’s house were cleaning here, so forget about how dirty ours is and just listen to the boom-boom of the liberty bombs, compliments of us, the good guys.

  Winking
As we face our impending boom
But flirting leads to fucking
As I'm sure that Hiroshima can attest
Tie God's hands
To show the non-believers that there's nothing he can do
But build a tomb
Waiting for the button to be pressed

  So close your eyes
Save your prayers
The comment box is locked
He kept the key in Nagasaki
Beneath the bones
It's buried there
Mean while the war burns on  

We watched the dove turn old and gray
Dying like a dog
We heard them all yell bombs away
High up on the hog
We thought this was the safest way
The fallout proved us wrong
The hungry hawk won't stay at bay
That's why we sing this song..........

Wouldn't it be nice to say
"You know you'll never see the day
The smiling skylines melt away
All upon the day
They drop the bomb"

They say it's very necessary
Scary in a way
That anytime or anywhere
To the stench of burning hair
Mankind will end
If it's too much work for the automatic
Bring it on down with a radon static glow
As a night light to the grave  

Might makes right
"War ain't a human tragedy.  It's an American business.
And don't you forget. Enemies ain't people.  They're targets.
Civilians?  Shit.  You can make an omelet without breakin' some eggs, now can ya?
There's Freedom in your fire boy
So light em up"

  Look mommy, a balloon

As unpatriotic as it seems
The empty ends don't justify the means
The importance of defense
At what expense
With consequence considered
I don't feel too fucking safe

  So lets all scream until we bleed
When fighting fowl fly up to feed
The power won't take heed indeed
But the need to try's alive
And if the last dove coos and dies
And still the hawks enreath the skies
Lets find a hill up high and sigh
And watch the fire fly  

Waiting for the cloud to come along

GO! GO!
My dear Enola Gay
Don't pay attention to the schoolyard or the kids at play  
Fuck food!
You gotta get more kA-Bang for your buck!
Put a bullet in a belly, with a bomb or a helli,
For a dead man don't eat much!  

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Prophecy of the Olive Branch

The skylight burns bright for the dawn of the Armageddon
As the hungry hawks of HI-MI mate, in brutal, loveless fashion
Striving to conceive the devices necessary for the complete and total extermination
Of every and all species deemed threatening by the powers that be.
In the name of their ulterior motives.  

Unbeknownst to the birds of prey
The acquisition of these devices is a threat within itself
Setting in motion the gears of the nuclear holocaust
Spun by a chain of fear and fueled by the failure to perceive all living beings
As one unified entity

  (The Machine Is Now In Motion)

I t is but a matter of time, fear, and failing to evolve
Before we usher in our own extinction
To the warmth of a mushroom sunrise
To sight of the flashing clouds
To shrill and broken screaming of the children's melting eyes  

(Learn to Love The Machine, Or Fall In It's Wake)    

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6:1

  Already knew that these eyes of glass won't tear
Another told me that a shaking hand can't feel the pain
I'm numb to all I see and hear
Be it fact or fiction, it's all the same
This pill of human travesty
I've down a million fold
My world is stoned on the smoking gun
Licking light from lifeless lips
Seed slip a sews a frozen rose
Born a thorn that's worn and knows
It's seen this all before

  Somebody told me that I've seen this all before
The light is on in an empty home

Searching for perspective
Through my looking glass hallucinogen
The end is real
And it's the only thing I'll feel
And what about all the things I've come to love
They’re out there knocking away

  Welcome everybody, to the same old game
With brand new name
On a brand new day
In the same old way

  You knock but no ones home

  Leave the light
 
On On Off

  The things that you perceive act as the ember of your cigarette
They burn on down to the filter
Just to sear your finger tips
And as the sand slips past your hourglass
You kiss the open flame
To take a taste of what you've always known
And find it's not the same

  And we have heard this all before
And we have seen this all before
And we've all felt this before
We all went out like that before
And we had it held this long before
It wasn't always made of stone

This light is on
But no one's home

  I hear you knock

I hear you

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White Nectarines

  It's all vividly peculiar

  Climbing fast up the dreamer's tree
There's nothing more that a frantic boy like me
Would love to commandeer or engineer
Than the center of a white nectarine
 
Can't see the fruit between these leaves

  It's time I climb this iron tree
"And touch me"

  Sleeping on my peaceful bow
I dreamt of when and where and how
I'd sit inside my dreaming tree
And see just what's in store inside a white nectarine
 

Awakened by my early fall
Down came my dream
Before I even tasted, just in slumber,
All I'm waiting for and more inside a white nectarine
 

Gonna' need an axe to fix this mess  

It's time I bend this iron tree
"And touch me" it said
"Reach out and touch me" it said
"Reach out and feel me" it said
'Reach out and peel...."

  Stretch your tongue out where your eyes can't see
And tell me,
Is it all that you thought it'd ever be?
We always take for granted
Dreams and hopes inside this sacred tree
All for a non-existent, slightly twisted,
Bright white nectarine
 

It might have been a bit of bitter fruit
That made a manic man a mangled boy
But he blamed it on a broken branch
A silly sleeper in a splinter tomb
What if the woody wouldn't wipe away
The cryin' iron and the bending blade
The manic man and the metal tree
A nasty niggle and a bright white nectarine

  Sleeping eyes see more than a wide eyed life can lead
When the lid, it lifts to the light, you watch your wisdom burn
Search for nectarines, Axe their fragile seams
In the world you think is real
A lie inside a peel
Until you wake
   

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Once Upon a Mountain Top

Initially, in energy
Well, I flew through the midnight sky
To the cries of the cold and wet
As a big ol' ball of flame
Well, I played the game
I stayed sane and I kept the mountain dry

Dry
Hope it don't die
Fire god, Fire god
Cool in the middle with a hot physod
Water why?
Water where?
Let it burn and don't you ever care
Harmony?  Fuck Harmony!
For water ain't no part of me

  Here upon the mountain top I am a ball of flame

  Eventually, it came to be
The lakes of ash were a bit hard to drink
And when the stream ran dry
The mountain tried, but couldn't cry

Cry
It don't flow bone dry
Fire! Fire! there you go!
Burnin up fast
Simmer down slow
Water? Water!?! Wussie fad!
Making at' god O' Fire MAD!
Harmony? FUck harmony!!
For water ain't a part of me

Running down the mountain top
Burning every log
Ol' fatigue was settin' in
I broke into a jog
Curious of liquid love
I stepped into the fog
Stuck a flaming phallic tip
Inside the slippery bog
Swallowing my flicker flame
The marsh, she asked to romp
The prayers had all been answered
As the zealots dropped the pomp
Knowing that this water witch
Would bring about my smoky end
I pushed away, I'm glad to say
To penetrate the swamp
 
Here it was that I began to reminisce

  Once upon a mountain top I was a ball of flame

  Finally, Integrity
Proved to be a haul not worth the weight
When I met the puddle of my dreams

Fire god Fire god
Die in the winter with a wet phisod
Water water's not so bad
Bestest rest I've ever had
Harmony, yes harmony,
For water is the heart of me
 

But the Hand
of LOVE
is FIRE
 

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