NAME CHAIN

NAME CHAIN
2001

Don’t count on me beyond this smooth confusion
Don’t count on me to make your hole more whole
Don’t lean on me to steady your illusion
Because I am just a flag, I’m not the pole
I am just a flag out on a pole

Don’t flatter me to justify you need me
Because you know you’ll damn me when you don’t
Do you try to know me or to read me?
I am just a pen not what you wrote
I am just the pen with which you wrote

That is why the wind is not the dust that’s in your eye
That is why the tears are not the reason that you cry
And that is why my name is not what’s me
Names that always chain and never free