Remind ourselves each day
What we crawled up from and who we are
Clean myself like a cat
Who spent too long beneath a car

Everything goes still
Between the present moment and the dawn
All God's creatures freeze up
When you flip the high beams on

Long live the machines
Long live the machines
Long live these blissful carcasses
With their bones picked clean

Bad dreams bad dreams
With a panoramic view
Make a list of things to beat the dreams back
Follow through follow through

Swim to shore scramble up
Maybe make it through the clearing to the road
All God's creatures hold their breath if they have to
Until their lungs explode

Long live the machines
That never learn to work quite right
Long live the permanent ongoing blink
Of the engine light
Of the engine light