Words by David Bowden

Mute by David Bowden

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Words
by David Bowden

Album: Mute

Words are a part of me
They bring out what’s true to me
They paint the canvas
And skate the gamut
Defiling all that is red, white and blue to me
Words are the arrows whizzing through trees
My long-range attack on truth’s enemies
They are the cinematic attack reacting to a bureaucratic concept
I contradict the pragmatic anesthetic numbing the core of your consciousness
Words are a buffet and I have only a small plate
So I pile on and consume nouns, verbs, sounds, words
Until I regurgitate onto your empty plate the abundant banquet of thought I ate
You don’t have to swallow whole
I’ve chewed it, brewed it, glued it and spewed it
I’ve taken you’re Campbell’s soup and alphabet stewed it
Now we are both students
The teacher is words, the classroom is thought sung by lovebirds
And the textbooks, oh the textbooks, they are old scripts you see
Written by De La Rocha, Ginsberg, Christ, and King
The Principle at ‘Word High’ is a jolly wise man
His office is outside where his feet meet the street
And his graduates preach curriculum’s plan
When you are called to his office, that sarcophagus of bottomless options
His words leak like oil out of a carburetor into your minds drip pan
And the word-drenched principle looks into your eyes
Sees past your disguise
Points out your lies
And says,
“Speak”
Because only in speaking can the world’s word weaklings practice receiving
The verbiage of thought
Words are the branches on the tree called concepts
Its roots are thoughts, its leaves fall on the projects, the apartment complex
The ever-escalating product of the highly paid architects
Whatever the context the leaves fall the same regardless of the subjects
You can rest in the shade of the concept tree
As long as you speak the words of its leaf carried seed
Because concepts that don’t get spoken are broken
And repressed thoughts are spent like an arcade token
That is why words have so much meaning to me
Because they expose the holes in conceptualized community
So learn to speak the words of thought
And listen to truth wherever its taught