Shawn Phillips - Planned “O” lyrics

Phillips Thought that I could come to Columbus 'Twas a ship with voided sails There seemed a cavalier independence In the way that they told their tales About the riots kin to muted thunder And the bloodfall of useless hail Yet they revelled in an Indian summer While the sky was a silver pale And no one seemed to have an answer To the things that that entailed And she kept on lookin' at me Through a veil, through a veil Simplified lovers in a whirlwind Scattered in the sparkling breeze Stronger in the mounting chaos Praying on a calloused knee Acting out their short devotions To the nonexistent one above Playing on the soul's emotions In the act of making love And it seems that they have found an answer In the memories they recall And it looks like we are going to the ball And in their time they spoke of things appalling Of monarchs past and men to come and pray And though the prisoners were acquitted And the jury was committed to be slaughtered No presence graced their pa**ing on that day Planned obsolescence on a planet Begging for the basic needs All we got to do is sit and plan it Leaving out the guilt of greed Soaring through the years of fullness Stillness in the corpse's repose Space is at the edge of taking Peace is still the only road Ain't nobody really going nowhere 'Till we learn to bear the load And I think I feel a surging in my soul Vague moon hiding in the winter Tired sleepy people on the prowl Mountain standing so majestic Listening to the motor's howl Everywhere children with potential Learn to play the same old games Etna gave a needed warning Hurricanes do the same Power to the people to protect them In the fast and driving rain And I think that we're about to use our brain