El Burro - ORBS

I think you used to be a horse

I can see it in your teeth

And I used to be your rider

Cause I always needed a strong sturdy back and a handful of mane and to

converse, or maybe just listen

I think you used to be El Burro

Cause I can see it in your shoulders

And I used to be the water

Cause I always kept you from getting across

Still you drink from my breast

The dynamic was sickening

How we never change

In this reincarnate life

We’re still selfish and lame, lame, lame

Did you used to be in love?

Say did you used to be in love?

Because you smell like stale saliva

And did you believe in God?

Because your eyes are fixed on a crack in the sky like you’re patient and

waiting for some kind of sign

I think you used to be a wise man

Because you smell like an old book

But then again you’re pretty dumb child

If your fingers are pages they’re plump and quite new like they’ve never been

ripped at the corners

For love, sweet love, made to music, sweet music

In mud, thick mud, where we all came from

And I don’t need to change to make the same mistakes

And we do it cause its innate

We do it because we can

(What are you? What are you?)

I think you used to be tortoise

The kind you can’t bring home to mom

Because you use your exoskeleton like

A hotel for scum bags, a Lucky-U Inn

Step right up boys for a peek at some skin

I think you used to be a bottle

The kind that I couldn’t put down

I think I used to know you well, share some tales

Listen and smile while I talk to myself

Suck you till my belly was filled

With love, sweet love, we made like bums on drugs

And we sang «Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na»

Like it was the motherfucking end of the world

Axe falls because I lied again

A crack opens there’s light again

Legs open there’s a babies head

Life spills out to try again

Dropped into this body, expected to succeed

Repeating the same actions, expecting new results

I used to be an optimist, now I am a liar (Dropped into these bodies and

expected to succeed)

I used to be a solution, now I am the fire!

(Repeating the same actions and

expecting new results)

Repeat!

Repeat!

Repeat!

Repeat!

And I begin again…