Bricks on the Side

Leave the bricks on the side

While you work

Stack ‘em up

We’ll dump ‘em later

Go around to the front

See if the old man

Left yet

I’d put up fifty walls

If I had my way

All around the block

Tell ‘em

Try it now

Try getting here now

These people

With their lemonade stands

We got dirt roads

And front porches

And they’re talking

About convenience

Who cares about things

Being convenient?

If I don’t have something

Right in front of me

Then I don’t need it

Everyone wants it

In their hands

In their hands

Nobody wants to wait

Until tomorrow morning

Like we used to do

Nothing so wrong with that

We got by

Nobody went missing

Nobody went toe up

Everything seemed

Just fine to me

So old man comes to me

And says--

Brick up my house

Brick it up good

I’m done seeing the sun

From my front windows

I want to just lay here

Like my wife did

And wait for Revelation

I say--

Sure

Not gonna argue with him

What would be the point?

I think it’s your right

To say you want to

Keep people out

Let people have their opinions

That’s all right

But don’t think

You get to say

What’s what

That man lost his wife

And he didn’t have a smile left

On his face

So why’s he going to keep on

Getting his mail

And reading his newspaper?

You ever lost something?

Something real?

Something that you

Knew you couldn’t

Live without?

So you know why

Somebody would say

They’ve had enough, right?

People say

It’s just money for me

That I need a job

So if I want to help

An old man kill himself

I’m going to do it

Because I need the cash

But that’s a load of shit

I know how to make money

And I know how to feed myself

And wipe my own ass

And the minute I can’t anymore

You throw me behind some bricks too

Because I don’t see what another sunset

Is going to do for me

Brick me up

Just like I’m doing

For now, keep ‘em on the side

I’m going to start with wood

See how he likes it

Nice and tall

With no door

And that should

Do the trick

But if he doesn’t like it

I’ll start with the bricks

Not my business

To tell a man

When to close his eyes

That’s how I see it

That’s how

I’ve always

Seen it