Dear God Your river nymphs have desk jobs They're meant to be dancing in the streams Reminding everyone how beautiful life can be You're ashamed The same sensibilities Reticent Reticulated So hung around your hurricane breath Scared to half life by your impending That manna is the spirit of Euphrates While shambling your xylophone up 15 stairs The Pleiades have marked you for the waning In the prince's chambers they have laid her bare Broken plastic as maya Plato's shadows and fire Your eyes and every kaleidoscope are kissing Holding tiny hands precisely They wont sell it we ain't buying I can't find the blame It's forgiven Your perversion is only human Grown malignant from contusion Dear God Dear God Your river nymphs have desk jobs They're meant to be dancing in the streams Reminding everyone how beautiful life can be Two plates It's late Take your diazepam Reel a spirit from the mausoleum In church as Catholics eat the wafer Transfiguring Christ from the paper Above the door an electric fly zapper Remind me priest All creatures great and Robyn said it's on account of all the corpses A little tactless to tell the mourners But I'm still stewing from the holy man Taking sides in a war with no sides I'm not religious on account of my own cult But I'm pretty sure if Jesus saw this he'd bolt And now Reluctant to the alter Before the bleaching wind I take off everything Dear God Dear God Your river nymphs have desk jobs They're meant to be dancing in the streams Reminding everyone how beautiful life can be