These Few Presidents-WHY?

[ti:These Few Residents] [ar:WHY?] [al:Alopecia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]These Few Presidents - WHY? [00:17.17]At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas [00:24.57]You pray to nothing out loud [00:27.95]Two first names and an ampersand [00:31.27]Embroidered proudly on a kitchen towel [00:34.74]You're a beautiful and violent work [00:38.75]With a skinny neck of a chinese bird [00:42.33]In a fading ancient painting [00:45.97]And if you're in heaven waiting [00:49.03]You made it there fighting [00:51.04]The tightest kite string [00:52.63]In a bad storm with lightning [00:56.82]And now these few presidents [01:01.08]Frowning in my pocket can persuade no god [01:08.36]To let me let you talkoh [01:12.68]These few presidents [01:15.76]Frowning in my pocket [01:19.52]Can persuade no god to let me let you off [01:27.55]Even though I haven't seen you in years [01:31.00]Yours is a funeral I'd fly to from anywhere [01:36.40] [01:40.92]I thought I had a peble in my sock [01:44.74]I pulled it off and shook out a wasp [01:48.12]It stumbled out lostand without a pause [01:51.95]I'm stung as I wasstill I stomped it [01:55.28]I thoughtthere is no paved street worth [01:57.91]Of your perfect scandanavian feet [02:01.93]My crooked chinese fingers groped [02:07.31]The machinery of your throat [02:13.80]And now these few presidents [02:17.68]Frowning in my pocket can persuade no god [02:25.01]To let me let you talkoh [02:29.59]These few presidents drowning in my pocket [02:36.30]Can persuade no god to let me let you off [02:44.27]Even though I haven't seen you in years [02:47.22]Yours is a funeral I'd fly to from anywhere