Vic Chesnutt - Rips In The Fabric lyrics

She was walking down a sidewalk Sniffing, sniffing in the wind Thinking of everything and nothing Just another flighty human being And satellites were arcing Undetected overhead Her cells were busy splitting Engenacing the dead Beauty is as beauty does In the eyes of the beholder Or collectively in all of us She was waving to a cyclist As he went coasting past In through a lazy intersection Toward the remainder of his life And a ferrell cat went dashing Behind a dumpster there Which displaced a brown rat Which went fleeing with a comical flair We are trapped but we are free To go through the motions And be just as happy as we can be And later on I held her in my skinny arms My chapped lips were whispering esoteric alarms But her warm breath a**uaged me and the music returned We continued dancing while big forest fires burned Space is spooky and time it is a trip Don't let the preachers, teachers, hipsters fool you There ain't no rips in the fabric