dionysian

I wake up from my sleep and I rise from the floor 
It's time for the channels to change. My thumb is 
on the button. Hope is in my heart. For the heart of 
darkness I aim. I get the vague feeling that something is wrong 
'cause I still can feel the pain. I try another channel but it's not even 
close. So I run to the kitchen for a bottle of wine. It's a question 
of focus. It's a race aqainst time. And I try some more channels as 
I search through the drawers. I cannot find what I am looking for 
So I stamp back into the living room, and then I sit back down 
'cause I' m a Dionysian in search of a corkscrew  

I used to dance to the drum and the flute, 
just to celebrate the seasons of change. Climb 
trees fat with sap from the root. 
Now just going outside is way out of my range.
I used to live in the greatest nation on earth. 
They call it the imagination. One day conquistadors broke in my place. 
They burned all my books. They laughed in my face. 
Started drilling for oil by my living room rug. 
Said I'd really really dig the coal mine they dug. 
They confiscated my closet space, emergency storage for nuclear waste. 
They built a handy franchise of mini malls. They beat freeway close. 
They're right in the hall. And I'd like to get in my bedroom for a few hours 
sleep, but the congressman and sweet sixteen won't leave. 
So I guess I'll sit back downÉ

Quantum physics says you change what you see. 
I'd like to say that's what I believe. 
But all these programs on my tv, they're looking just about the same to me. 
Saying "Break out the party hats, blow up the balloons. 
The whole world is a happy cartoon." 
Saying "Nothing in the kingdom is constructed to last,
and history is a thing of the past." Saying "One day you're thin. 
The next day you're fat." The talk show host told me about that. 
She said "You look like you're lost and addicted to chat." 
I said, "I'm searching for a myth to get me up off the mat.
"She said, "You twitch in the kitchen. You bitch and you whine" 
I said, "I'm waiting for a sign from the fruit of the vine.
"She said "You know it's getting very, very late in the night, 
and your corkscrew is lost and you're too tired to fight.
"I said "I can still twist the cap off this alcohol 
Thank God there's a mini mall right in the hall"

Euoi    Euoi    Euoi    Euoi
Euoi,	I will dance to the drum and the flute   
Euoi,	and climb trees fat with sap from the root 
Euoi,	I'm gonna celebrate this season of juice and blood   
Euoi,	and pull myself out of the mudÉ