Christ, by the dumpster Peeling and a-tossin' your lottery tickets Oh Nazarene, drinking dust Oh Christ, rising and a-fallin' Oh, Jesus Christ, givin' us the finger In Christ I'll tumble (?) Bless, please, the people in art galleries Lonely as a distant train Bless, now, the cancer of the bone The last light making beautiful The poisons in the sky And the condemned man in his tuxedo dream His dream of limousines and innocence Take off your clothes and come to him in dreams
Stand on the fire escape naked and blest With jazz like a rivulet of codeine The laughter spilling from our broken necklaces, oh Bless, please, the people in art galleries Lonely as a distant train Bless, now, the cancer of the bone The last light making beautiful The poisons in the sky Christ, by the dumpster Peeling and a-tossin' your lottery tickets Oh Nazarene, drinking dust Oh Christ, rising and a-fallin' Oh, Jesus Christ, givin' us the finger In Christ I'll tumble