Witches & Warlocks

i'm tracing pentagrams with chalk onto my floor

i'm lighting candles

cookin' curses casting

spells to bring a storm

that will cloud up over bloomington,

and make black the midwest sky

i'm pushing pins into the map to mark the points

for lightning strikes

may the ashes of the university make their way

out to the sea and may the bones of the invaders

mix with the bricks of burned buildings

we will make them into to mortar

and we will build this town again

i'm calling on dark forces to take me back to bloomington

we'll dig some holes and plant some seeds

and grow trees back in the park

so the bums will have some shade to drink

and a place to sleep when it gets dark

nick will get his job back when we re-open the Vonlee

we'll watch movies and eat popcorn

but this time we won't have to sneak

we'll make music in our basements

we'll play 4-square in the streets

we'll carve hexes in our our highways

to ward off the wicked beasts

and this time we'll keep our city

safe we'll keep our city sweet

we'll keep our city free

one by one

and block by block

we watched it slip away

the towers of our enemies grew taller everyday

until at last i cast away and tried to find some better place

but it's wings are wide and cast

it's shadow down on everything

so i'm praying to the lord

and every other god i know

to give me a flaming sword and some extra lightning bolts

and the power to destroy the ones

who took our town away and the strength

we need to build it back into something great

and this time we'll keep our city safe...

and sam will come back from california

and she will know just what we need to do

and all the cool kids that i've met

in all the places that i've went

will hear the booming of the battle

and come too and we'll make this place

into the greatest place there's ever been

all we want is a place to live

the kind of lives to want to live

so i'm rubbing every lantern that i find

and i'm chasing every rainbow that i see

i'm searching the clovers

trying to find one with four leaves

anything that could grant one wish to me (x2)

and portland will not save you

and olympia will fall too

and gainesville will surrender someday

and i know bloomington

will never be the same bloomington

will never be the same