Drums Songtext
von Architectural Metaphor

Night had sabled down
Scattered with diamonds
Fused my dust from a light year
Squeezed me to her breast
Sewed me with carbon
Strung my warp across time
Gave me each a horse
Sunrise and graveyard
Told me only I was her
Bid me face the east
Closed me in questions
Built the sky for my dawn
Clawed by foot and mouth
Followed the empty zebra ride to the circus
Rusted painted cage
Spoke to the paybox
Glowed witch wrote on my tongue
Pushed me down a slide
To the arena
Megaphone-ium fanfare


Worn his cloak of words
Strode the ringmaster
Bid me join the parade
Wish and cry the clown
I am a TV making bandsmen go clockwork
See the slinky sea
Circus policemen
Bareback ladies have leash
Strongman by his feet
Plate spinning statesmen
Acrobatically juggling
Pierced tamers go quiet the tumblers
Lest the mirror stop turning
Elephant, speaker, horsemen on stage
Are in the floors of their cages
Strongmen lost their hair
Paybox collapsed
And lions sharpened their teeth
Blood raced round the ring
Stallions stampeded
Pandemonium seesaw
Boy ran for the door
Ringmaster shouted
All the fun of the circus