Keep Clean

We're all holding on to banisters
'Cause it's a long way, it's a long way down
And the enemy of common sense
Is a loose grip in a steep stairwell
So toss me to and fro
'Til I condem the very sense of being still
And we'll litter all the weight shed, all our trappings
For the rest to wade through
No matter how narrow is our path
And we could never name our burdens
Still they pained us all the same
I never knew my context but that's just fine
Yeah, I'm stuck outside of my shaking mind
I never felt an inside too ill-defined
Never compromise if you still got time

So we're all ordaining ministers
'Cause we can't keep, no we can't keep clean
We've been deferring to a hypocrite
With a kind voice and a loud idea
He divided up the races
With a pencil, with the book of Genesis
So hoarded us into companies and colonies
All knitted up against each other
No matter how, no matter how common is our parts
I never knew my context but that's just fine
Yeah, I'm stuck outside of my shaking mind
I never felt an inside too ill-defined
Never compromise if you still got time
I was a visionary, 'til I sold my vision
You were a missionary, and this place your mission
I collected up my fillings and my crowns and went to sleep with all the sound
To disribute all my thoughts amoung inanimate depictions of myself, myself