The Worm In The Apple-Ezra Furman And The Harpoons

[ti:The Worm In The Apple] [ar:Ezra Furman And The Harpoons] [al:Inside The Human Body] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Worm In The Apple - Ezra Furman And The Harpoons [00:16.19]I'm gonna sit on a big fluffy cloud [00:19.38]Looking down at the tops [00:21.19]Of the heads of the crowds [00:22.92] [00:23.43]Moving round and around [00:24.74]The dark center of town [00:26.30]With their eyes all [00:27.42]Searching for something [00:29.17]That can't be found [00:30.48]I'm gonna laugh [00:31.61]At the top of my lungs til [00:33.54]I can't quite remember [00:34.85]Just what the joke was [00:36.66]But the laughter will fill up [00:38.72]My body with love [00:40.15]Which is always what I've been told [00:42.71]I'm supposed to want [00:44.02]And I'm gonna fly [00:46.39] [00:47.70]On a plane to the sky [00:50.14] [00:50.76]Which my mind [00:52.14]Will devise using science [00:54.93] [00:56.32]That's being forgotten [00:58.18]Cause I'm getting [01:00.06]Bored of the town of New York [01:04.00] [01:04.68]How the world's been transformed [01:08.05]Into a big apple [01:09.18] [01:10.16]And it's gotten so rotten [01:12.44] [01:15.31]Oh [01:16.49] [01:28.03]While all the world [01:29.41]Makes money so stoically [01:31.34]I will be building my home out of poetry [01:34.40]Scraps of old volumes wire and glue [01:37.84]Will be something [01:38.95]Though feeble it's all I can do [01:41.45]In the back of the room [01:43.32]My fingers will shake [01:44.76]With the fury of someone [01:46.57]With something to make [01:48.13]That will take him [01:49.51]So far far away from this place [01:51.69]That he'll never look back at [01:53.56]All the worms and the snakes [01:55.31]And they'll lick at my heals [01:57.55] [01:58.37]But they aren't even real [02:00.73] [02:01.92]I will twirl and wheel through [02:05.85]The skyway high over the steeple [02:08.79]And I'll take you with me [02:11.59] [02:12.41]And we'll grow old and lovely [02:15.09] [02:15.77]We'll eat fine apples from [02:18.21] [02:18.84]The tree of knowledge of good and evil [02:23.79] [02:28.10]You won't know about that [02:29.60] [02:39.02]Burning with all the things I must do [02:41.96]To get free of the wasteland [02:44.07]Of wire and glue [02:45.50]I am wandering from cage [02:47.50]To cage at the bronx zoo [02:49.25]And I'm renaming all of the animals [02:51.56] [02:52.68]I can't just wait [02:54.30]On my knees in the chapel [02:56.18]To be bitten into [02:57.55]Like a worm in the apple [02:59.37]I'm digging for freedom [03:01.24]Guitar for a shovel [03:02.85]I'm dirty my fingertips hurt me [03:06.41]The kids of atlantis magazines [03:09.98] [03:11.03]Beneath the mattress [03:12.96]With their names in the atlas of [03:17.03]Heartbreak are calling my name [03:19.77]And I'm feeling baffled [03:21.95] [03:22.95]The worm in the apple [03:26.07] [03:26.70]But the cold water tap [03:29.56]Will rain down upon me [03:31.13] [03:32.00]And nothing will be the same [03:34.11] [03:38.99]It's all gonna be different now [03:40.92] [03:43.48]I hope