Lifetime Sentence - State Champion

A ceiling fan can’t make a man

Make a change in plans or give a fuck

I think I am the one that you want to see things through with

Rebel academics with delirious souls

Jeff Foxworthy in a serious role

We’re making resumes out of things we’d really rather not screw with

Things a ceiling fan ain’t had nuthin' to do with

Now the morning dawn is dripping in

The morning doves in song again

How could I have been so irresponsible with my time

Gossip stops at the top of the hill

Wage strike at the rumor mill

You ask me straight if I will love you, I say that I will try

The dawn is terminal with doves now

Their song sounds like a cover of mine

But it takes a long time for me, babe

Just to fake it in the light of day

There’s a styrofoam Big Gulp waiting on your gravestone

Say it to me kindly

You had the face of a whorehouse clock

When we learned that the case was a courthouse flop

The jury is erased with a swing of a wand

Earth ages in a cosmic mirror

It all seems like a lifetime sentence ago

A ceiling fan can’t make a man

Make him whole again or even half

I think I walk the path with which you’d like your path to blend

Broodmares immaculate defeat

Easter bunch at the O.T.B

Where you can lead a horse to the finish line but you but cannot make it win

The fridge is terminal with save the dates

From all my since-divorcee friends

The evening dusk is sinking in

The evening dust swept up again

The air conditioner hums and the doves they sing to the tune

Edibles and lipstick

Edibles and lipstick

Faded popes in an imitation triptych

All the thoughts you fit inside one room

You’ve unconsigned yourself and not a minute too soon

But it takes a long time for you

To learn to fake it in the nighttime too

There’s a styrofoam Big gulp waiting on your grave

You can see it when the light shines through

And it takes a long time for the message to break

You can feel it inside when the ceiling fan aches

The fury is erased with the swing of a wand

Earth ages in a cosmic mirror

It all seems like a lifetime sentence ago