Babel

	Words upon words
	stack the tower of Babel
	brick on brick on straw on clay
	but a whispering stirs
	and the structure's unstable
	when all the scaffold's stripped away.
	We're ever quick to aver
	that we are ready and able
	but we can't say what's coming, come what may.
	By definition self-obsessed
	we strive to make ourselves plain
	with words that pass the acid test
	with passive thought in train.
	Words upon words,
	fiction, folly and fable,
	each pregnant pause a dead giveaway...
	ploughing on undeterred
	as the sell-bys expire on our labels
	though at length we'll have little or nothing to say
	it would be too absurd
	to spend life all agaze at our navels –
	oh, we've got such limited time to go on and explain.
	So, running off at the mouth,
	we all get carried away
	uncertain when it all goes south
	if we mean what we say.
	If we mean what we say...

	Words upon words
	stack the tower of Babel
	brick on brick on straw on clay
	but a whispering stirs
	and the structure' s unstable
	when all the scaffold' s stripped away.
	We' re ever quick to aver
	that we are ready and able
	but we can' t say what' s coming, come what may.
	By definition selfobsessed
	we strive to make ourselves plain
	with words that pass the acid test
	with passive thought in train.
	Words upon words,
	fiction, folly and fable,
	each pregnant pause a dead giveaway...
	ploughing on undeterred
	as the sellbys expire on our labels
	though at length we' ll have little or nothing to say
	it would be too absurd
	to spend life all agaze at our navels
	oh, we' ve got such limited time to go on and explain.
	So, running off at the mouth,
	we all get carried away
	uncertain when it all goes south
	if we mean what we say.
	If we mean what we say...