Skin of a Drum

Saul Williams

Composição de: Trent Reznor / Saul Williams
And I can't become my father when it's all been said and 
done. His completions won't complete me. I've divided me by
 one. I'm the answer to his riddle. I'm the caution of his 
wind. I'm the spoon wedged between tongue and teeth beneath
 his trembling grin. And I dare add my revision for I dare 
not suffer twice. And I dare not re-invent the past. And I 
dare not be the Christ. And I welcome any sufferer. And I 
welcome any Saul, sitting in this room on wooden bench 
waiting for Joi to call. And I suffer here alone, Lord, 
perturbed by my every thought. How I've tried to strip them
 to the bone, I've struggled and I fought. Every jealous, 
warped intention, smuggled, sewn into my genes. Every 
hidden mongrel tendency exploiting me in me.

Each time I put them under
But still they wanna test me!
I cry out through the thunder
You storm right past me!
I search and I ponder.
I question and wonder.
I roar and I thunder.
Please let me in.

I've been waiting here for what now seem the better of an 
hour. I've raised every crippled question from the dead and
 given power to the abscense of my sanity. The presence of 
a fear that lies in between forgotten dreams that pile up 
every year. Up above your highest testaments, down below 
the wooden floor, there's a gutted room, pitch black at 
noon, beneath a hidden door. Deep within you'll find the 
attributes of every sunken man who must bang his head 
against the dead each day he tries to stand. And he's 
standing pressed against the very woman that he loves. 
Kissing eyes and lips, embracing hips, surrendering to her 
touch and just at the very moment that he touches heart to 
heart, she pulls from his touch, 'cause it's too much to 
Página 1 / 2
mend what's torn apart...

Each time I put them under
But still they wanna test me!
I cry out through the thunder
You storm right past me!
I search and I ponder.
I question and wonder.
I roar and I thunder.
Please let me in.

It's so hard to be the man I would be if hatred and fear no
 longer appeared. I swear, I've become the skin of a drum, 
the heart of a man. Divided I stand.
Página 2 / 2