An Ideal Ledge Lyrics

Album: III

There is a ledge somewhere set against a deadly precipice

which Spring’s nostalgic winds never reach.

It overlooks the confluence every sewer built by man.

I stand naked and erect on this rock scarcely wide enough for my bare feet to rest flat.

I watch the fluids below roll and fold. All of my lovers past and future present themselves naked in that muck, pulsating like eggs.

A thousand epigones below cry:

“Only to live, to live, to live…”