What a a strangling knot to be caught in To be here To be stuck in with Vienna so near Yet so far from the ear a strange and impossible sum To be old while to be so young To have sung before speaking a To be To be to fail To be To but to be so naive To trust and to be so To mourn, forlorn, to be torn you Scorned for another who suffers no To God, seeking lightning And to still be To hide in this room, now too rich to To hear armies of creditors at the door Always yelling for And to have nothing to sell that help Except for the that sits in the corner
For it all came too easily To the scales in every key To play the etudes and the The nocturnes and The To master the sonatas, minuets, and To seek the truth and starts To strike the middle F it's an arrow through the heart To the right hand like a dove
(the peaceful flutter of a dove) And with left a shove
(some moments will demand a shove) To needle gently yet relentless a steady foot upon the pedal And to clench the first inside the velvet glove To learn to and to scream (the whisper the scream) To let each finger breathe (no, lives unless it breathes) To burn, to worship, to To pose a with a pinky on a key To flee, to fight, to To in air solid underneath To rap heavy knuckles on the gate to heaven til there's nothing to Achieve, but To go retrieve the length of cable in the cabinet To metamorphasize the twisted rope unto an To lay the lazy C upon the wooden floor to rest To send the end across the top and bend the C an S To curve the beneath the S to turn the tangle to a B To hug the wretched root around the fibers To wrap again to again to give the coil seven loops To penetrate the hoop To tug the loose appendage To yank the knot until ready for the job
it's got to do To toss the braid the ceiling beam and to affix the noose To bid adieu to all of you
until there's left to do but the chair To the collar the edge To into the air