Ignoring The Oracle
What do you get if you ignore the oracle?
She tells you to love, you find that you don’t
She’s speaking in tongues and mixing her metaphors
No one but you seems to know what she means
How long can you stand to be lost in the wilderness
with a riddle for a road and a ghost as your friend
And every cool stream that you know since your childhood
has dried into dust and the ditches of stone
Wasting your time is fine if you never die
But wasting your mind may lighten your load
If she is right, bless us with modesty (it’ll cost us with modesty)
And we count every star before we kiss her goodnight
December 5th, 2006
Coffee Bean Brown 8-23-2003 Project THERE Ignoring The Oracle with mandolin and accordion
Before “Ignoring The Oracle” Trevor puts on the accordion and says: “I had an Uncle Howie, well he’s still alive so I do have an Uncle Howie. He gave me this once (accordion), so I figured, I might as well give it a shot. This is a song called Ignoring The Oracle.”
After “Ignoring The Oracle” with Trevor on accordion, Josh: “We gotta wait for Trevor to dismount.”