Inversion Songtext
von Southwire

Ambition may have destroyed his morals
But time has given Ben Weaver grace
And I love him with something far fiercer
Than that what emanates from your golden retriever′s face
So I wait
And I'ma wait with as much generosity as I would on the next 16A
As I would on the true and authentic revelation day
When all of our producers get out of Lino Lakes
Until then, remember that it was a road that killed Rondo
But it wasn′t just a road
And there are days for distinction
Phenomena and epiphenomena
But today is the day we make good on the promises
Of a young George Bailey or a young David Conover
Charismatics, targets, spiritual staff sergeant leaders of men
Raised in these waters, heard from less and less until ne'er again
I assure you these names did not fail you
If there was failing to do it was certainly the other way 'round
We′re not just down or on board
We′re on the board of the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan


We've come to understand our greatest contribution
To this august institution
Has been merely to hear the terrain in his song
To see through his evil countenance and counting
And grasp just how Potter is not wrong
But a keen observer, an inverted keeper of the flame
I had said I wasn′t gonna write poems like this no more
But these kids play this very same game
Their move, of course, is to hold fast to beard and banjo
More distressed than damsel
If you're like me, you′ve joked before
About how many and more seem dressed
As if fresh from some Elks Club time capsule
Put beneath the floor between the war
If you're like me, then say it′s true
Your cynical laughter may have even derailed a train song or two
But this is merely a failure of generosity
We're afraid is all
But your fear, yours and mine
Amounts to only a misrecognition of inverted love
And revolutionary potential, yours and mine
And I have no doubt that old Ben
Brings that profound sense of the poetic to each part of the pig
When the world is upside down
It's urgent all good people learn the inversion