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Petri-Dish
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Simon Joyner
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Alex is in love with his Special K.
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And Chris is in love with philosophy.
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And Bill is in love with Woody Guthrie.
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And I'm in love with suffering.
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I'm in love with suffering.
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Bill is in love with Woody Guthrie,
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and I'm in love with Woody's suffering.
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When I was young I was delinquent.
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I was in love with vandalism.
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Just like this kid in the Sunshine State
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who threw a rock through a window
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and got a bullet through his braces.
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The kids are alright with suffering, I guess.
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The billboard said we need blood back
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'cause an act of God is a hard act to follow.
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The Earth is a hostile petri-dish.
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It makes that wafer so hard to swallow.
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Nobody cried on Calvary
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'cause Jesus died for our suffering.
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If you're not part of the problem,
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you're part of the solution.
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There's a color-wheel lodged in the throat of the nation.
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While the brothers blow their brothers away,
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the cops are getting it all down
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all down on video tape.
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They got it on the video tape.
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'cause the public servants are in love with public suffering.
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Alex is in love with razor blades.
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And Chris in love with the Minutemen.
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So we all tip our waiters and our waitresses,
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even though we know they don't stand a chance.
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We tip 'em anyway,
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'cause we are in love with their suffering.
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