Even the Good Wood Gone Songtext
von WHY?

And when I woke up I woke up stiff and gray already
Dozed in sleep by something, half my selves made stone
Wrists and ankles crossed at a vulnerable angle
And when I woke up, well I woke up alone
As the only fuller pharaoh present
In a shoddy school museum collection
Looted of gold if there ever was some
And even the good wood gone
Remaining fingers curled around the memory of a rod
Left not even with my death mask on
Heart and other organs missing for so long
Features faded and dated in estimation
And even the good wood gone


Drunk off a leak in the ceiling
Some mantra stuck on my lips in vain
No flash photography
No flash photography
No flash photography

And when I′m really buried, I'll be buried in Cleveland
With a new pair of skis and someone′s old set of keys
To their car and bottom floor apartment door and health club locker
To throw the scent of my true purpose from God and grave robbers
My true purpose which I will have taken
The care to have kept hidden even from myself my whole life

No flash photography
No flash photography
No flash photography

Already gray and rehearsing my mantra
Left hand gripping hockey stick or cattle prod
My final futile act of double deception
Aloof and tinged with truth as the best lies are
As I've always shot pool southpaw
And many of you who knew me saw