Mercury

I've been wallowing in the water that makes me strong,
Humming the dead verse of my inconsistent song,
I've found a way of getting by that gets me high,
But I've made myself a bitch to lesser things.

Somewhere it all went bad a long, long time ago.
I think I cut the nerves to stay on course.
Fucking my synaptic visions,
Jerking off my god,
I've made myself a bitch to lesser things.

I think I killed my self a long, long time ago.
Somewhere along the way.
I am Mercury, a flowing mirror river,
Drink... Tell me what you found,
Trapped in a world of only you as long as I'm around.

I've come full circle in my needs,
Swallowed all awakenings,
And I've made myself a bitch to lesser things.

"You wouldn't know how to weigh it, you don't know your metabolism, you don't know your sleeping quotient, you don't know when to eat and not to eat, you don't know about electricity...."

--Lou Reed, from a Lester Bangs interview, 1975