Lyrics:
You Know What They Say
A Daniel comes to commit a crime
A chain is only as strong as its biggest bolt
Just like the diamond in the smoothness
Is a knight in shining cloth that puts
A millstone around my back because
A picture is worth a thousand frames
Put on a sheep in fox’s clothing
Since all’s fair in hate and peace
As the apple of my tongue
Is as busy as a grasshopper
And is as dead as the sparrow
Please don’t think these are all directed at you
I’m probably not telling you anything that’s new
If I’ve done anything to you that wasn’t right
You know what they say
That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite
The master of all trades, jack of none
Is getting in trouble by raising Abel
And robbing Paul to pay Petter
Which causes him to fall off the bandwagon
The sword is mightier than the pen so
Take it with a pinch of pepper
Just to play the angel’s advocate
Because absolute submission corrupts absolutely
So I’d prick up your eyeballs to
Pull someone else up by their shoestrings
And really push the letter in order
To put the donkey before the buggy
I hope you don’t mind reading what I wrote
I’ve been trying to turn my action into a noun
Where the snow is black and the rain is white
You know what they say
That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite
A small fish in a big lake
Can go to heaven in an air balloon
Since it’s your path or the bike path
As life is clean, sophisticated, and long
You have to fly under the sun
And skate onto this eternal coil where
There’s always a free dinner laying around somewhere
Hanging in the fur of the bear that licked you
Which is one of the things that drum during the daylight
As fiction is weirder than the truth
That is easy lies the head that wears the robes
Of the man who uses a ball ping hammer to carve Mt. Everest
I know that you can’t quite get the handle
But in my opinion it’s not that much of a scandal
Don’t blame me, it’s just that my ime is finite
You know what they say
That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite
The watched kettle always burns
A little dry under the nose
What the devil joined together let no woman put asunder
And why should God keep all the best poems
So take up a step or two as far as I know
It was in the first place I looked
Be sure to strike while the anvil has cooled
Since the leopard always changes its spots
And lets the left hand gain full knowledge of the right
As the divided trailer props itself up
And you’ve hit the screw right at the bottom
Since your absence makes my lungs grow weaker
In my opinion most phrases are said incorrectly
A lot of words are used to get to it indirectly
But if you let me I’ll try to understand your plight
You know what they say
That’s just another switchblade you’ll have to bite
