Keep Clean

We're all holding onto banisters

'Cause it's a long way

It's a long way down

And the enemy of common sense

Is a loose grip in a steep stairwell

So toss me to and fro

'Till I condemn the very scent

Of being still

And we'll litter all the way

Shed all our trappings

For the rest to wade through

No matter how narrow is our path

And we could never name our burdens

Still they pained us all the same

I never knew my context

But that's just fine

Yeah I'm stuck outside of my shaking mind

I never felt an insight

So ill-defined

Never compromise if you've still got time

So we're all ordaining ministers

'Cause we can't keep

No we can't keep clean

We've been deferring to a hypocrite

With a kind voice and a loud idea

He divided up the races

With a pencil and the book of genesis

And sorted us into companies and colonies

All pitted up against each other

No matter how common is our cause

I was a visionary 'till I sold my vision

You were a missionary who misplaced your mission

I collected up my fillings and my crowns

And went to sleep without a sound

To distribute all my thoughts

Among inanimate depictions

Of myself