Take the hard from the soft And the rough from the smooth Lose a tooth to the truth And an eye to the sun That it takes pain and fear To keep feeding the fun Because smiles are a mask And are split from the one I don't claim to know this Or have that understood My days and my thoughts Are to time lovely food Squeeze my life of it's glow And my breath from my chest Find the gold that is there Borrow eggs from the nest Let the bird land on nothing Of a mind isolated Conscious, anticipated And a world full of smoke