There's an ugly man leading us through the desert
And my teacher said that if he split in two that nobody would care
Not like when "Oh, Captain, My Captain" did
And he's taking us places where our feet are unsteady
And I wonder if soon he'll take us to places that have never seen white before
Places that would ruin my new red shoes
Because that matters, you know

And this song's been looping around and around
And I've heard that that can drive people to kill themselves
So I'm wondering why I'm not dead yet by the fourth hour
Not that I'm ready for death, but some days I'm ready for birth
Where I'm back in the warm darkness of my mother's womb
Before the days where they taught me that love meant dying
And that anything could give you cancer
And before you find that all the good people die
And that all the idiots can somehow live through a nuclear war
In this day and age that might come in handy

Well, I've been having dreams lately of somewhere very far away
But very warm and when I think of it I can almost touch it
Almost remember the place I've never been before
But I wake up
I wake up
I wake up
And it is never there except in the form of shadows
And I wonder if I can reach it through the computer
The one that they say will turn against me in the future-it'll be the end of me
And I wonder if it takes time to get advice from Lucifer
If it stops for a moment to play poker and find out
The secrets of destruction from a fallen angel

I wonder if man will die by his own creation
I wonder if man will learn from his past mistakes
My history class tells me he won't