I woke up with you

But I was not there

I had squeezed out my heart

I had cut off my hair

And I shrugged in the mirror

And I vanquished myself

Attained a little nirvana

Then did something else

I stumbled to the ruins

To study and to learn

How to reconstruct the temple

Which I proceeded then to burn

And you with your dark eyes

Are staring at me

And I'm standing in scare quotes

That everybody sees

So what can I say

When I fall to my knees?

Gonna do something desperate

For the hell of it

And then I'll move on

You can cast off all meaning

You can run and run for days

And yet here you are

Well, your body anyway

So you sit on a hill

And you stare at the clouds

Till they stop turning shapes

And they start turning loud

And maybe you'll find yourself

Guilty and bold

As you dance with the lightning

In wingtips of gold

And you stand up proclaiming

It won't strike me twice

Then it strikes you again

And it strikes you thrice

Now do you get why

I keep rolling the dice?

It's time to do something desperate

For the hell of it

I'm already gone

I'll try not to endanger

The life of a stranger

Won't go running my car off the road

And I'll try not to hurt you

I won't mess with the virtue

Of people who think it's worth holding

Do something desperate

For the hell of it

As Edison electrocutes the elephant

Do it pestilently full of reverence

Until we are one

Hey thanks for listening

It's the last thing I'll say

Can you stop by the market

On your way home today?

I think we're out of something

I guess I could be wrong

Was gonna fix a nice surprise

But then I wrote this song