These hot machine years 
 burning time across your face
 See the smoke
 stacks
 rising up
 like [bad word] you towers?
 My girlfriend sang 
 like a hummingbird today
 til that cough 
 stole her voice 
 and fed it to the furnance.

 Shrew laugh, trench throat...
 there's a party on the 16th floor.
 This apartment's paper thin walls...
 you know your neighbors sobs by heart.

 Tight coil, cold grin...
 Highways wrapped around my body like a snake.
 Got a view of a cement lawn, amputated horizons.

 Thanks for the survival rags!
 Thanks for the soiled skies!
 Thanks for the [bad word] up future!
 We can learn to love misery!

 Was it just last night
 that I woke up to a snarling baby?
 Did I hear it right?
 He begged his mother, "Feed me to the forest!"

 The factory is 
 singing us 
 to sleepless beds tonight.
 Lungs like 
 twin garbage sacks 
 sucking charcoal breath tonight.

 Sick squeal, dull moan...
 Looks like your neighbors found another victim.
 Screams "Help!" but no [bad word] ..
 Honey, won't you turn the TV on?

 Brown summer, stench wind...
 The globe spinning on [bad word] hinge.
 Get in your car go to your job,
 like a train that's being robbed.