I Wear My Soul Inside Out
I Wear My Soul Inside Out



Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe

I wear my soul inside out
I cling to a rope made of water
I always do my best
Cause I know that you oughta

(Momma told me so)

I got a mask for every need
For every occasion
To ward off evil
And all pesty Persuasions
The boy is bat shit crazy
He bends in the wind
Like a Smiley face Daisy

I got a primal monkey rage
Fed by Talking Heads

(Damn Dirty Ape)

I got the tools of destruction
All tucked in my shed
I got an archetype of mental illness
Undernеath the veneer
Tenaciously rеnewing its
Lease every year
It’s a definite monster not unlike Gollum
Chained up in my basement to a lolly column

The boy is bat shit crazy
He bends in the wind
Like a Smiley face Daisy

Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe
Pa da lee pa poe
I feed the monster platitudes slid under the door

(Feed me father, give me cookie)

I hear terrible noises
It always wanting more
There’s a battle going on between
The monster and my ID
Arising from the cellar
Like a giant squid
I glue pieces of my life together
Like a kids toy model

(stop sniffing glue son)

My brain is a sugary drink
In a wax bottle

The boy is bat shit crazy
He sways in the wind
Like a Smiley face Daisy

He’s an actor in a play
He’s been conditioned what to think and say
And his costume a thinly veiled reality
Being broadcast from a distant galaxy