Year of the Almond Plum

In a gated wealthy West Coast labyrinth
I went for a walk with an old friend of mine
The world was strange
The sun set
I was ten years old
My face in dirt

The trees were different
I danced
Birth into death-pregnant architecture
And a bizarre withering old fellow
And his chihuahua screamed in my direction
"My name is Rupert Murdoch
Get off my lawn"

I said
"Hey man
I mean
Rotting oozing castrated fecal matter
I'll give 22 years to you
Bash my skull into the wall for you
Shoot myself out of a cannon for you
Write a thousand songs for you
I'm gonna give it all to you
Come a little bit closer
Let's get together
Now you're gonna give it all to me"

Ripped blue jean on the Burlington scene
And the psychedelic monk screams
Haul your ass over to Eugene
Order in the court
Order in the court

The wiccan crust punk flirting with the Ganesh figurine
Ooh I really wanna do an eight-armed elephant
Come on over to the new town
Where everyone is getting down
You're the man with the blue glue gun
Fiery-eyed under the Winter sun
And this machine is breaking you down
You're trapped inside of the neon clown

I'm standing outside the Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A
My friends Killy and Rebecca just wandered inside
When out of the sky falls the backpack I wore
When I was ten years old
And the world was different
And up to me comes a great big philosopher stoner
Eight times the size of Jon Berger
Grabs my backpack
Grabs me by the throat
And screams
"Don't you fucking fuck with me
I'll give 22 years to you
Bash my skull into the wall for you
Shoot myself out of a cannon for you
Write a thousand songs for you
I'm gonna give it all to you
Come a little bit closer
Let's get together
Now you're gonna give it all to me"

The wiccan crust punk flirting with the Ganesh figurine
Yeah, who the hell would wanna do an eight-armed elephant?
And who would wanna move to the new town
Where everyone is getting down?
You're the man with the blue glue gun
Fiery-eyed under the Winter sun
And this machine is breaking you down
It's time to pull the plug on the neon clown

To the initiated imbecile mind
I've watched a world prepare to die
Through infinite filth
Greed
And stupid
The living flesh rewired