Shock-Locks

Shock-locks, understand: you alone are mild

Mane to sneaker-string, clothes and everything

Self-cropped, boy-chopped hair, tough and cut and wild

Each lock like a switch-blade blade switched open, exploding like a star

You took a jumbo-jet out of Kansai -- Osaka -- crashed the Chicago sky

Came down where the biggest building stands to seek a life of design

When the INS man asked, "watcha doing here, watcha doing here, my child?"

You said you'd come for school and study, but you're gonna school us

Gonna school us all just fine

And I'd advise the wise, "start shaking!" -- as for a fool like me,

The wild one alone is the mild one.

Shock-locks, understand: you can bear my child.

Let's dishevel things, let's hit everything!

Let's kill, let's destroy, let's impose some style

Make the radius of the wreckage stretch out a thousand miles

It's here we'll raise our epicentral stage -- I'm gonna build a shrine

And history books will soon omit the Great Chicago Fire

And give grand terms to the... subversions now that we all call crimes

And the post-blast motives in art-book photos of future times

Will be of your design

And I'd advise the wise, "start shaking!" -- as for a fool like me,

The wild one alone is the mild one.