LAZARETTO

My veins are blue And connected And every single bone in my brain is electric But I dig ditches with the best of 'em Yo trabajo duro como en madera y yeso como en madera y yeso But even God herself has fewer plans than me But she never helps me out with my scams for free She tells me every day, “Jack don't you see?” When I say nothing I say everything When I say nothing I say everything They threw me down in a lazaretto Born rotten, bored rotten Making models of humans Out of coffee and cotton And all my illegitimate kids (w) 'ill be gotten Thrown down to the wolves Made feral for nothing Quarantined on the Isle of Man And I'm trying to escape any way that I can any way that I can I have no time left man Time is lost, no time at all, Throw it in a garbage can And then I shake God's hand I jump up and let her know that I can This is how I'm going to do it They wanna burn down the prison Lighting fires with the cash of the masses And like the dough I don't fall down I'm so Detroit I make it rise from the ashes