I'm not sure who's fooling who here
As I'm watching your decay
We both know you could deflate
A seven hurricane
Seems like you and your tribe
Decided you'd rewrite the law
Segregate the mind
From body and soul

[Chorus:]
You give me yours
I'll give you mine
Cause I can look your god
Right in the eye
You give me yours
I'll give you mine
You used to look my god
Right in the eye

I believe in defending
In what we once
Stood for
It seems in vogue
To be a closet
Misogynist homophobe

A change of course in
Our direction
A dash of truth
Spread thinly
Like a flag
On a popstar
On a Benzodiazapene

[Chorus]

Oh Zion please
Remove your glove
And dispel every
Trace
Of his spoken word
That has lodged
In my vortex

I'm not sure who's fooling who here
As I'm watching your decay
We both know you could deflate
A seven hurricane
You could have spared
Her - oh but no
Messiahs need
People dying in their
Name
You say "I ordered you a
Pancake"
You say "I ordered you a
Pancake"


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Pancake Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos

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    I think it's to do with religion too, but for me I imagine pancake to be a choice taken away from you. I didn't know a pancake was a word for communion wafer, but I always pictured a woman leaving a table in a restaurant for two minutes, and coming back and someone else has ordered for her, she has no choice about it. I think this links to religion, those who simply tell you what to follow or believe and don't encourage or permit you to question it.

    daneypopson April 02, 2008   Link

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