space diamond , once i said it it was sailing through the ether like a prayer without true fervor or inspiration to make it home so dance then , if we must die fling me across your shoulder though heavier than doldrums pretend that i am light and when the night is over my white garden lover let 's return to the river let 's paint it black as blood 'dear jesus , ' he 's not absent unless we keep on trying to make a dead man 's ceremony tick in time with ours sweet mistress , once i touched you it was like witnessing a murder of every false ambition , guile that stood between us and home learning to fly ( love american-style ) if youre tired and youre lonely lonelier than sin who can not find a soul tonight willing to dance with him and your whipping boy is all whipped out still he 's whipping back with force remember my son though things are bad they might still get worse so hitch your carriage to a star hitch your star unto a girl find an automobile that looks like you feel and travel the whole damned world which for the moment is a single blade of grass because america is exhausted and this thing does n't run on gas but on dreams and dreams like other machines built from piss and puss and sweat and as they say , 'if you 're breathing boy , you are not dead yet ' but on your way to gallows ' songs or weak , marginal dissent it 's a day in the life of a disney dog or a panda 's cold footprint no , forget that tone of dark despair there 's a world beyond yourself now break the blinds on your closet time rise up on roller-coaster stilts yes , see the world and god behind beautiful , terrible , true when all your mistakes are behind you there are only new things to do and though she turns and laughs out loud 'fucking symphony of fools ! '