Commencement Songtext

von Black Eyes

A trumpet blast from the mountaintop
As the man in robes descended upon my mother's house.
Speaking a tongue, i thought it was my father's...
It was not.
He handed me a box made of stone
Inside a bug, made of wood.
And, as per his instructions,
I put it in my mouth.
However, once there,
I found it crawled its way
Deep inside my eyeball.
I reached in with my hand to retrieve it,
But once there i found i required a branch,
Or a stick, or a hand of wood to retrieve such a wooden bug.
My hand, made of flesh, was useless for such a task.
And so, i retreated to the mountains,
The land of my father,
With the bug stuck so deep inside my eye
I could not see
And my hand stuck so deep inside my throat
I could not speak
There, blind and hungry,
I pondering the wrongs done to me
By the man in robes.
He had tricked me,
But this would not be the end of my story.
And so, with my return,
I had learned that for every entrance,
An exit
For every birth,
A death.
The man in robes had unjustly entered my life,
And so he would exit it.
(don't blame the sea
If you can't find the seashore)
I walked...