The Bastard

If you ask me how I knew, I saw you Had a bird's eye view of a bird's eye view, saw you Saw you not as you think Simply just as you, I saw you And all of this augers well Even though it's presaging pell mell All of it augers well This is the bastard of it being, we got the bastard having to choose This is the bastard Then you turned all Billy Sunday, shoutin' Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelphia As the sun groomed the plane with crepuscular rays When I saw you And all of this augers well Even so, it's presaging pell mell And all of it augers well This is the bastard of it being, this is the bastard having to choose This is the bastard Having to choose between a flickering fuse and power Beyond what you use Never mind us purple Italians Never mind that pool in the mountains Victory came and went on winged elephants, I saw you And all of this augers well Even though, even so it's presaging pell mell All of it augers well This is the bastard This the bastard This the bastard ...