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You attribute so much meaning to a polygon drawn on the earth
Political lines dictating our lives
Gone overboard giving second-rate advice

San Francisco starts to dance
Offers me a second chance
Never seen a perfect thing this side of the movie screen
And nothing smells of show and tell
Like my weeks have these days
On Hierarchy Island!

Swimming with the summer youths
Ponytails and photo booths
Sunburned skin and sun-bleached hair
Soft guitar sounds in the air
Sandaled feet and stomach tans
Flower-patterned beachwear
Lay the towel in the sand
Hierarchy Island

Come on
Don't talk
Don't breathe
Don't shock
Who won?
Don't sneeze
Be clean
Beach scene
Ocean liner
One survivor
It's a ferry that we ride
Hair blowing to the left
The sun starts to warm my insides

One of these fine mornings, at break of day
I'm going home on a cloud
But don't let nobody hear what you say
'Cause going home's not allowed

One of these dull afternoons you'll wake up and you'll realize
You never wrote a thing in your life
These are prints of former selves
Undone by small Penelopes
Working evil little elves
Unravelling your histories!

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These are all the dead songs that I ever wrote
These are all the silent letters that I ever spoke
You didn't have to stay with me to kill me in my sleep
You didn't have to talk to me, you shouldn't have made a peep

A single week in Mexico
New York's a hundred years ago
And much, much farther, distance-wise
Than miles and miles of friendly skies

This island is my enemy
It's made a human mess of me
This island isn't my land
It's Hierarchy Island!

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from Coke​-​and​-​Spiriters, released October 31, 2007

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