Jaron

In a theater, there is a play
About how a man died the other day
On the taxpayers' dollars he lived his life
This is the story of a black sheep, and how he died

His name doesn't matter, but let's call him Michael
Like the archangel. But no, he had his disciples
A second redeemer but the world wasn't ripe
For his harvest, 'cause this was a different sort of Christ

Rolling dollars to snort drugs, like oxygen tubes up his nose
With his brains full of holes and his nostrils lined with coke
The air heavy with cigarettes, his eyes heavy with dope
This new Christ aspired to be a different sort of folk

He told men to rise up, he said "Lay down your burdens
On my back," for all the ones that were hurting
He would walk like he had the whole world on his shoulders
Stumbling the boardwalk as he screamed bloody murder

He was boozed up and coked up and shot up and stoned
As he stumbled on broadway, with the streets he called home
For fourty days and fourty nights they left him in a gutter
And all he said was, "Help me forgive them, father"

All the street sleepers sleeping down in Central Park,
And the strippers and whores, they all did their part
For their saviour, just 'cause he saw who they were
And he took all their beatings as he beared all their scars

When he died on a park bench, there was noone around
Noone was watching him cry blood to the ground
(He overdosed after he snorted a pound)
But when he died, the earth shuddered and God himself passed out

When Michael wept, the earth cried harder
And when he died the earth was murdered
The city died screaming, beating out bloody murder
And let earthquakes break hearts from the world's bleeding center

When Michael walked, the earth rose under
When Michael spoke, the clouds spoke thunder
When Michael wept, the earth cried harder
And when Michael died, the earth was poorer...



NOTE: In the second to last stanza, fourth line, "fucking" is there because it didn't feel right to break the rythem and I didn't know what else to put. Suggestions? ==> Changed to "bleeding"