Darwin Be Patient (New Song)

Darwin be patient, you done all you can
Wrinkles still invade the faces of men
Women dispute to measure their worth
The royal navy argues the land of your birth

We're out trading handguns for petrified rocks
Charterhouse bellows for relics from the cross
We write mission statements with blood & birchbark
Barter umbrellas for a seat on the Ark

The tall grass the splinters the rocks and the rain
Are driven by something, we don't speak its name
Its currents fire circuits hid under our skin
Lead us back to the place from where we begin

But the corporal prison swings shut its gates
Our mess comes in a pan rusted by our mistakes
So if you think the world crooked, bereft and askew
Don't abandon those dreams of a holy rescue

So Darwin, be patient, you done all you can
There ain't a schemata for the faces of man
We bend and we buckle, we long and we scheme
We find our release amidst all of our dreams