Vesuvius Lyrics - Vic Chesnutt

Trying to clip the creek to the bank with a clothes pin 

Waterlogged system, rusty spring, faulty planning 

Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog 

Hypertension is not wisdom, chewing the leather straps 

Trying to hold the sun still with a bobby pin 

Burned fingers. excellent conductor of heat 

Private fantasies are not public policy 

Christian charity is a doily over my death boner 

Busy work is not the Great Wall of China 

Vanity bamboo hut out back behind the big house 

Pretend is salve for whitey-boy guilt 

Furiously slapping at the moon with a cane pole 

Trying to prop up the heavens with a fresh flat pencil 

Some folks are allergic to rubber 

I am trying to stitch this one to all the rest of them 

But the seams will split, collide and cleave 

Neopolitan ice cream is never truly integrated until it s too late 

Trying to stop the bleeding with scotch tape 

Platelets spoil adhesion, fire up the cauterizing iron 

It's a branding of necessity not scarification 

Bliss was a pimple that I tried to pop 

It erupted up and out on my countenance 

Ugly eruption, Vesuvius, ugly eruption, Vesuvius 

Ugly eruption, Vesuvius 

Vesuvius at myself, Vesuvius at myself 

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