Milemarker - Ant Architect lyrics

Mad scientist sits at his desk Tries to decide which building should face east and which west Allergic to the hive, the hive is giving him hives He's an ant architect, a meteorologist of mood swings and other things which shouldn't be measured If the brain is the engine and the heart is the carburetor, and the legs are made of rubber and the spine is made of pipe cleaners we can build our own people in any way we choose We can push our own bu*tons like adolescent gods We can bask in the glow of the new synthetic sun The casket you know is the most comfortable one We can suture the future shut like a cut We can build epic structures Copulate and populate We can suture the future shut like a cut We can replicate structures which replicate us Deaf-mut in a leisure suit who, try as he might, fails nightly Fails miserably Buys a colony from the back of a magazine, plays simulated city with real living things His fear of d**h is intense as he crushes the ants But there's a freedom there: there's no one to apologize to Selective seratonin reuptake inhibitor