Generator

Like a rock, like a planet Like a fucking atom bomb     I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness that I encounter everywhere I turn, I've seen it all before,               in books and magazines,        like a twitch before dying,        like a pornographic sea, there's a flower behind the window,              there's an ugly laughing man,          like a hummingbird in silence,       like the blood on my door, it's the genera - - tor                                 oh yeah, oh yeah, like the blood on my door, wash me clean and I will run until I reach the shore, I've known it all along                like the bone under my skin,   like actors in a photograph,      like paper in the wind, there's a hammer by the window,                  there's a knife on the floor,          like turbines in darkness,         like the blood on my door, it's the genera - - tor