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how electricity really works - mike ladd lyrics

how electricity really works
the buildings are made of lightning
benjamin franklin in eternal shock
kite with key in hand after all these years
he is the ghost atop these towers
jumping from peak to peak
like jack frost or sandman
fairy light from the distance
hagging and sh*ll*shocked up close
his skin sags like muddy bags of rocks
hauled from a mine
his clothes, tattered and singed
he glows from radiation
it has been so many years

oblivious to praise and his honor
his chateau in history is vacant
bored with paintings by danes
of make*believe negroes at ambivalent feet
he discarded letters and chests
for fire from clouds
delving in the games of gods
basking in new decadence
beyond women in paris and the death of indians
something supernatural
the harnessing of energy
electricity man
thunderstroke junkie
fiend for sky*crack
circuit surfer illumidating home by home at the speed
filling new york, beyond
bringing to life toys in boy’s bedrooms
a tinker bell from h*ll
a rumpelstiltskin with weaponry
his neck is still smoking
and wastedly, he keeps us well*lit
alive with syphilis caught from power
his eyes swirl like peppermints gone wrong
this deist
defrocker of jesus
now frocked in orisha robes
a sucker for èṣù
ogler of ogun
jocking for position with these gods
stuck in second with santa claus

demigod limbo aspirations kept him alive all these years
general electric is a loanshark
it’s hounds and sunglasses
wait in pontiacs to catch ben
jumping light to light
in their line of fire
old glow, they call him
con ed can’t find him, not even by satellite
they take our money with the ambivalence of vacuums
and we pay
hoping for a glimmer
we drop checks in mail slots like t**th beneath pillows
dance a little, smile
and praise the crackhead
running our appliance
old glow got us humming
rubbing rubber carpet
clinging together
ravaged by static
searching for the kite
grabbing at the key

- mike ladd lyrics

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