USOP
The Patience Sutra

Come on
Let's steal a car
    and drive to the mountains
Let's do it       right now

[Mike Romoth]

We'll buy a bottle of wine
    and sit on a railroad bridge
       and sing songs to the moon
We'll find a fuse
    and we'll set it on fire
Come on       right now
       Let's go
           Let's go
Coffee cigarettes whiskey sex
Let's eat everything that makes us crazy
Come on       we've got to go
We can't wait even a minute more
Tonight is the end of the world
So let's dodge this catatonia
      that sings us into dangerous sleep


We can sleep when we're dead
We can diet
      when famine rolls into town
Enough of this comfort and anesthesia
Enough of insurance
    car payments
       love money
         deadlines
Can't you see the beautiful body
     you've been assigned
Don't you want to test it?
     Run it like a race car?
Let's go
     Let's go
         Right now
I don't want to read a book
     see a movie
        watch TV
Let's get in a fistfight
     you and I
Let's go down to the ocean
     it's not that far away
We'll strip off our clothes there
     and swim in the icy bitter sea
And if we cut our feet on the rocks
      so be it
And if we lose ourselves in the waves
      so be it
But let's do it now
      Let's go
          Let's go
Who here is afraid to explode?
Let's buy a gun
Let's break a window
Let's take our bicycles
       to the top of the hill
          and ride down  no hands
       cruising through the red lights
          with our eyes closed
We could all get tattoos
      I know a place nearby
We could all be on the next ferry
      to Alaska
Let's do it all
Come on
        Let's go

Mike Romoth