Fire Escape from Subliminal Thrill by Jared White

Fire Escape

Leave the bodies behind but don't make me explain
Why you shouldn't let a warm heart heat a cold brain
No man will ever get more than he deserves
So don't get so nervous at your funeral service
Don't want no revival of the art of survival
Been running from that since you were an ape
But you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

You're doing time on the imperial ranch
Your master whipped you with an olive branch
He caught you praying for the power to kill
The repercussions of your power of will
So you broke out the window, pulled down the drape
Now you're running from the man in the long black cape
But you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

You're going down, down, down, and a-round, round, round
Running down from the man in the long black cape 
But you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

Madame Besant is teaching psycho-geography
To Neils Bohr who's teaching her numerology 
Billy Blake is shooting Smith and Wessons
At Uncle Stanley given flying lessons
Alan Moore painting pictures on the lower floor
Of Bobby Villain but they looking like the whole landscape
And you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

I got a high born hot chick
Gold chains, fly whips
Assassinating fascists with her fine ass sharp wit
Love to joke, like to smoke
Sign over a bank note
Never gives too much away
Loved by the small folk
Why she mean so much to me?
Glamour and authority
Waiting with a wild rose for a wild rape
But she still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

She's on a dark stage out back
Hoping for the hand clap
Waiting for inspection at the world's end
Final act, lights rise, it's ok
Soon she will be swept away 
Touch down, soft ground
On the other side of town
From the circumcision room 
On down to the tomb
They watch you running on video tape
But you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

You're going down and around
Running from the man in the long black cape
But you still ain't at the bottom of the fire escape

• Rock
• americana rock alt-folk
• folk
• greatest of all time
• singer-songwriter
• spiritual
• Kansas