Plow (There once was a man who built a house upon a pile of rocks) Lyrics

(What are you doing

I'm in command of this ship now)

(My dad was sweepin' floors in a nitroglycerin plant during the war)

(Not from the Bible

The Bible says that Christ suffered once)

In the third wave we called them heat-slugs

They left behind a thin trail of magma-like ooze

As it cooled to earth temperatures it biodegraded into something unspeakable

Then came the spire

Then worms

Then we woke up with new tools we had no idea how to utilize

(It doesn't have to exist if I shut my eyes

If I shut my eyes it all disappears

If I wish hard enough I can wish it all away)

(Light is a force unto itself

It is a positive force)

Is anyone happy

Look around you

What's everyone doing

I'm not proud of what I did

But I don't regret it

Not for an instant

What was lost was necessary for the progression of what was written

The cut worm forgives the plow

What else is there to do

(And I love my Lord Jesus above anything)