Hole in Your Roof

                                  What do the men say 

To the women when they lay down at night 

All naked of arms from the old imagined fight? 

And how do the women hear? 

In kind and in likeness of light 

"In kindness you needn't and neither do I

We are both of us capable of flight" 

And as if to give proof 

She jumped through the hole in the roof 

What did the condemned say 

To the blessed when they met on the path? 

"O you take the low road and I'll take the high for a laugh

(but if I'm laughing now it's because I've a gentle heart)"

And because it was true 

He slipped through the hole in the roof 



La la la la, 

La la la la la la... 

From above your head a thing can be read that you're thinking... 



What the secretaries sing and the CEO's bark in the bars 



What do the dead say 

To the ones who still think they're alive? 

"With your heads all on backwards 

You can't see in front for what near behind you lies" 

"Well show us some help then

Above your head let it flicker the light

These ones that I'm with 

Have not learned to forgive your necessary alibis 

When they made you love money

And the poor prophet's stock

When they poisoned the watersheds 

And fashioned our arrowheads 

From the deep forbidden rock



O but did you see what people do? 

And when you saw it you did it too

Now all your children are twice the size of you 

And they come in at night through 

The hole in your roof 

The hole in your roof 

The hole in your roof 

The hole in your roof