augie march
the hole in your roof
What do the men say  To the women when they lay down at night  All naked of arms from the old imagined fight?  And how do the women hear?  In kind and in likeness of light  "In kindness you needn't and neither do I We are both of us capable of flight"  And as if to give proof  She jumped through the hole in the roof  What did the condemned say  To the blessed when they met on the path?  "O you take the low road and I'll take the high for a laugh (but if I'm laughing now it's because I've a gentle heart)" And because it was true  He slipped through the hole in the roof   La la la la,  La la la la la la...  From above your head a thing can be read that you're thinking...   What the secretaries sing and the CEO's bark in the bars   What do the dead say  To the ones who still think they're alive?  "With your heads all on backwards  You can't see in front for what near behind you lies"  "Well show us some help then Above your head let it flicker the light These ones that I'm with  Have not learned to forgive your necessary alibis  When they made you love money And the poor prophet's stock When they poisoned the watersheds  And fashioned our arrowheads  From the deep forbidden rock  O but did you see what people do?  And when you saw it you did it too Now all your children are twice the size of you  And they come in at night through  The hole in your roof  The hole in your roof  The hole in your roof  The hole in your roof