Album: Hot Damn! (2003)

Godspeed Us To Sea

Turns out I never had a thought at all. I've been talking in my sleep, reciting
teleprompted anthems - a marionette strung tight to the executives upstairs. I
almost had myself convinced that I meant everything I said. What a shame. Oh
captain, my captain, you've been drinking, What happened? I've been slurring my
cadences and blacking out when I stand. I know all about your son, who never did
return from the war. But there was poison in that bottle, I tell you. I'm coming out
with my hands in the air. This is not my voice. What you are hearing is not me.
There's been a horrible mistake. I'm a proud God-fearing registered democrat. This
is all some elaborate scheme and it will be cleared up when the governor beckons for
me. He'll clear my name. It appears that the inmates have overrun the asylum. There's
a madman at the wheel. We are not even remotely capable of keeping our heads about
us. We've abandoned all semblance of presence. Dead bolted, buckled in. Keeping our
word to the sinking ship. Let the rats orchestrate the new mutiny, I'll meet you
overboard.