God Shuffled His Feet

Once there was a kid who
Got into an accident and couldn't come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The cars had smashed him so hard

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Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw bithmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there

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But both the girl and boy were glad
'Cause one kid had it worse that that

'Cause then there was this boy whose
Parents made him come directly home right after school
And when they went to church
They shook and lurched all over the church floor
He couldn't quite explain
They'd always just gone there

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She knows the future like the palm of your hand
She knows you past like the lay of the land
The first time she met me she say right through me
Some cards and a cane in here hand-and she said:

All the yeras that have come to pass
And All the years that shall be
I see here right before me

She said her visions were a bane in her life
She could not control them, they kep here up nights
I know what you're thinking, I haven't been drinking
She knew things that cut like a knife- and she said:

All the years that have come to pass
And all the years that shall be
I see here right before me

Will there be earthquakes and great tidal waves?
Can she see back to the dinosaur days?
How can she forsee just by squinting at me and
Can she see me naked in her mind's eye?

What does she think when she fortells a disease?
Would she keep it a secret it death stood before me?
What could some cards hold, where is here foothold
Can I escape what she see? And she said:

All the years that have come to pass
And all the years that shall be
I see here right before me

After seven days
He was quite tired, so God said:
'Let there be a day
Just for picnics, with wine and bread'
He gathered up some people he had made
Created Blankets and laid back in the shade

The people sipped their wine
And what with God there, they asked him questions
Like: do you have to eat
Or get your hair cut in heaven?
And if your eye got poked out in this life
Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?

God suffled his feet and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

So he said: 'Once there was a body
Who woke up with blue hair
To him it was a joy
Until he ran out into the warm air-
He thought of hos he friends would come to see;
And would they laugh or had he got some strange disease?'

God suffled his feet, and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and satred right back at him

The people sat waiting
Out on their blankets in the garden
But God said nothing
So someone asked him, 'I beg your pardon:
I'm not quite clear about what you just spoke-
Was that a parable, or a very subtle joke?'

God shuffle his feet and glanced around at them
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cur a chicken's head off
But it will keep on running and twitching

When everything seems planned out
When everything seems nicely planned out
Well the human race will come and smack your face

How come all my body parts so nicely fit together
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!
A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching

Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air

How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in a iron lung
And I will keep on breathing and twitching

When you go on camping trips you're stuck right out in nature
Foraging the forests like a primate
Using sharpened tools instead of hot plates

Your tumb and forefinger supposed to show you're not a wilke beast
You can hear their noises at night time
They don't have to keep a certain bedtime

See in the shapes of my body
Leftover parts from the apes and monkeys

Sometimes when I lie awake I hear the rainfall on my tent fly
I think of all the insects that are sleeping
And wonder if the animals are dreaming

In the days of the caveman and mammoths and glaciers
Bugs and trees were your food then; no pyjamas or doctors

And when I finally get to sleep, I dream in technicolor
I see creature come back from the Ice Age
Alive and being fed inside a zoo cage

Running into you like this without warning
It like catching a sniff of tequila in the morning
But I'll try, I'll try to keep my food down
That's quite and after-taste that yopu've left now that you're not around

You can just pretend we're not in the same room
Well, alright, I'll just mosey to the bathroom
You flew by like a summer vacation
And you left me with TV-movies amd a messy kitchen

I think I'll disappear now, slip out sideways
Just for a while- but until then I'll stay in a sleep late, excuse me

I'll buy a fast car, I'll drive fast from here
There's a beach I haven't seen since last year-
It's far, but I like night drives;
If just makes it nicer where I do arrive

Aren't you going to miss me?
Aren't you goint to even say one thing to me anymore?

Well, you can bet that I'll forget how it was then:
All the drives to your farm for the weekend...
But I've seen the swimsuit magazines
And I've smelled the tequila first thing in the morning