In the darkness No one stops to say Hello, hello How you going? Strangers gesture At big screens Hooray for the cripple! Hooray for the human microscope! Now are we only carving sheep, taking vitamins, out to lunch with the in-laws, licking stamps, getting headaches? At the bottom of the sea Abstinence needs quiet company Is that the tight dress that you wore now all in pieces on the floor? Come on, let's get to the bottom of it! In the darkness, we just seem to slip away . . In the darkness Sweeping sounds precede the wind Cutting in and out of children Yelping in the snow And now that the soldier is home And he tags along with all of the others Do they need him around? Do they want him around anymore? Oh, are we only milking beef, letting violins in, weeping beyond sunken buildings? It's just a graceful full-body sneeze And the cable car that's stuttering ‘neath your knees!