ESRT (2001) Songtext
von WHATEVER, DAD

Sixteen pages worth of poetry
I can no longer decipher or understand
Tectonic plates grow at the same rate as my fingernails
But I can scratch a mineral and name it in my hand

Oh, the rocks and the hills erode still
The rocks and hills erode
Ready to become another planet
But the rock that I know now
I know squat about the thousands of white porous clumps
Screaming in the sky
Oh, how they cluster in the sky
How they cluster in the sky
How they cluster in the sky


I gladly opened up
My test paper to the boy who sat on my right-hand side
So that he could confer
What type of sediment would sink first
To the bottom of a body of water

Earth science is my favorite science
How, how can you not, not fall in love?
Rocks
Earth science is my favorite science
How, how can you not, not fall in love?
Rocks

Earth science is my favorite science
How can you not, not fall in love?
Rocks
Earth science is my favorite science
How can you not, not fall in love?
Rocks