Babelogue-Patti Smith

[ti:Babelogue] [ar:Patti Smith] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:07.40]I haven't f**ked much with the past [00:09.65]But I've f**ked plenty with the future [00:11.15]Over the skin of silk are scars [00:15.14]From the splinters of stations [00:16.76]And walls I've caressed [00:18.01]A stage is like each bolt of wood [00:19.88]Like a log of Helen is my pleasure [00:22.00]I would measure the success of a night [00:25.00]By the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed [00:27.25]I could exude over the columns that nestled the P A [00:30.55]Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off [00:33.17]With a skirt of green net sewed over [00:35.61]With flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed [00:38.10]The lights were violet and white [00:39.79]I had an ornamental veil but I couldn't bear to use it [00:43.47]When my hair was cropped I craved covering [00:44.97]But now my hair itself is a veil [00:46.78]And the scalp inside is a scalp of [00:48.52]A crazy and sleepy Comanche [00:49.34]Lies beneath this netting of the skin [00:53.21]I wake up I am lying peacefully [00:54.95]I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun [01:00.51]I desire him and he is absolutely ready to seize me [01:03.50]In heart I am a Moslem; [01:05.25]In heart I am an American; [01:07.00]In heart I am Moslem [01:09.37]In heart I'm an American artist [01:13.61]And I have no guilt [01:14.51]I seek pleasure [01:15.14]I seek the nerves under your skin [01:16.64]The narrow archway; the layers; [01:18.01]The scroll of ancient lettuce [01:19.51]We worship the flaw the belly the belly [01:22.63]The mole on the belly of an exquisite whore [01:26.15]He spared the child and spoiled the rod [01:28.64]I have not sold myself to God