XVI. Fraction: “Things Get Broken”

Lyrics

[CELEBRANT] Pacem! Pacem! Pacem! Look Isn't that odd? Red wine isn't red at all It's sort of brown, brown and blue I never noticed that What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen an accident before? Look Isn't that odd? Glass shines brighter When it's broken I never noticed that How easily things get broken How easily things get broken Glass and brown wine Thick like blood Rich like honey and blood [CELEBRANT, spoken] Hey, don't you find that funny? I mean, it's supposed to be blood [CELEBRANT] I mean, it is blood His It was How easily things get broken What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen an accident before? Come on, come on, admit it Confess it was fun Wasn't it? You know it was exciting To see what I've done Come on, you know you loved it You're dying for more Wasn't it smashing To see it all come crashing Right down to the floor? Right! You were right, little brothers You were right all along Little brothers and sisters It was I who was wrong So earnest, so solemn As stiff as a column "Lauda, lauda, laude" Little sisters and brothers You were right all along! It's got to be exciting It's got to be strong Come on! Come on and join me Come join in the fun Shatter and splatter Pitcher and platter What do we care? We won't be there! What does it matter? What does it matter? Our Father, who art in Heaven Haven't you ever seen an accident before? Listen Isn't that odd? We can be so still So still and numb How easily things get quiet Quiet Like a coming storm Air gets sickly thick and warm If I don't touch the ground I might not make a sound One, two, three Soundlessly Step Step [CELEBRANT, spoken] Shh Shh [CELEBRANT] Softly as cats can crawl Almost not there at all Carefully Quietly [CELEBRANT, spoken] Shh [CELEBRANT] Why are you waiting? Just go on without me Stop waiting What is there about me That you've been respecting And what have you all been Expecting to see? Take a look, there is nothing But me under this There is nothing you'll miss! Put it on, and you'll see Any one of you can be Any one of me! What? Are you still waiting? Still waiting for me Me alone To sing you into heaven? Well, you're on your own Come on, say it What has happened to All of your vocal powers? Sing it, pray it Where's that mumbo and jumbo I've heard for hours? Praying and pouting Braying and shouting litanies Chanting epistles Bouncing your missals On your knees Go on whining Pining, moaning, intoning Groaning obscenities! Why have you stopped praying? Stopped your Kyrieing? Where is your crying and complaining? Where is your lying and profaning? Where is your agony? Where is your malady? Where is your parody Of God said Let there be and there was God said: Let there Beatam Mariam semper Virginem Beatam miss the Gloria I don't sing Gratias agimus tibi Propter magnam Gloriam tuamen Amen Amen I'm in a hurry And come again When? You said you'd come Come love, come lust It's so easy if you just don't care Lord, don't you care if it all ends today? Profundis clamavi, clamavi Ad te, Domine, ad Dominum, ad Dom— Adonai don't know I don't nobis Miserere nobis Mise— Mi— Mi alone is only me But mi with so Me with s— Mi— Oh, I suddenly feel every step I've ever taken And my legs are lead And I suddenly see every hand I've ever shaken And my arms are dead I feel every psalm that I've ever sung Turn to wormwood, wormwood on my tongue And I wonder Oh, I wonder Was I ever really young? It's odd how all my body trembles Like all this mass of glass on the floor How fine it would be to rest my head And lay me down Down in the wine Which never was really red But sort of brown And let not another word be spoken Oh How easily things get broken