Goodbye And Hello

The antique people are down in the dungeons

Run by machines and afraid of the tax

Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes

Hauling their hearts around circular tracks

Pretending forever their masquerade towers

Are not really riddled with widening cracks

And I wave goodbye to iron

And smile hello to the air

Oh the new children dance

I am young all around the balloons

I will live swaying by chance

I am strong to the breeze from the moon

I can give painting the sky

You the strange with the colors of sun

Seed of day freely they fly

Feel the change as all become one

Know the way, know the way

The velocity addicts explode on the highways

Ignoring the journey and moving so fast

Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe

They run from the cops of the skeleton past

Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger

Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast

And I wave goodbye to speed

And smile hello to a rose

Oh the new children play

I am young under the juniper trees

I will live sky blue or gray

I am strong they continue at ease

I can give moving so slow

You the strange that serenely they can

Seed of day gracefully grow

Feel the change and yes still understand

Know the way, know the way, know the way

King and the queen in their castle of billboards

Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind

All their possessions and transient treasures

As they go to worship the electronic shrine

On which is playing the late late commercial

That hollowest house of the opulent blind

And I wave goodbye to Mammon

And smile hello to a stream

Oh the new children buy

I am young all the world for a song

I will live without a dime

I am strong to which they belong

I can give nobody owns

You the strange anything, anywhere

Seed of day everyone's grown

Feel the change up so big they can share

Know the way, know the way

The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage

And shatter their audience with submachine guns

And freedom and violence the acrobat clowns

Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons

While the tap dancing emperor sings War is peace

And love the magician disappears in the fun

And I wave goodbye to murder

And smile hello to the rain

Oh the new children can't

I am young tell a foe from a friend

I will live quick to enchant

I am strong and so glad to extend

I can give handfuls of dawn

You the strange to kaleidoscope men

Seed of day come from beyond

Feel the change The Great Wall of Skin

Know the way, know the way

The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen

Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives

And the men who aren't men, leave the women alone

See them all faking love on a bed made of knives

Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies

And in secret divorce they will never survive

And I wave goodbye to ashes

And smile hello to a girl

Oh the new children kiss

I am young they are so proud to learn

I will live womanhood bliss

I am strong and the man fire that burns

I can give knowing no fear

You the strange they take off their clothes

Seed of day honest and clear

Feel the change as a river that flows

Know the way, know the way, know the way

The antique people are fading out slowly

Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide

Godless and sexless direction less loons

Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide

They put on their death masks, compromise daily

The new children will live for the elders have died

And I wave goodbye to America

And smile hello to the world