Monday, February 11, 2008

listening:












Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind.
To withstand the world, that's what it takes.
All that steel and stone are no match for the air, my friend,
what doesn't bend breaks, what doesn't bend breaks.

We are made to bleed
and scab and heal and bleed again
and turn every scar into a joke.
We are made to fight
and fuck and talk and fight again
and sit around and laugh until we choke,
sit around and laugh until we choke.

Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind.
To withstand the world, that's what it takes.
All that steel and stone are no match for the air, my friend,
what doesn't bend breaks, what doesn't bend breaks.


-from out of range (1994).