Laughing Last for Franziska "Und webt in ewigem Geheimnis Unsichtbar sichtbar neben dir" I A letter from Social Security Has a cathartic effect on me I got one but everything is OK They said when I called them anyway And that they would call back another day Ask routinely about me again But please not to worry and until then Report any changes like if I Inherit a fortune or if I die Wary of a scary letter but Better now somehow and no matter what My misfortunate fortune is gone But fortunately for me I go on Though I am mad being glad to be But letters from Social Security Have a cathartic effect on me II Once we evolved fists We started making lists Who to be afraid Of and who to be made Enemies of these Enforcers at the ends Of losing our friends We are our enemies But they are us too As we do as we do One and another Fighting with each other What love has made clear Made otherwise by fear III Swaggering bully-boys lay down the law With frozen hearts that will never thaw Until like some of us someday they may Look at themselves in another way But they dance as puppets for donors now Nothing trickles down but cruel tricks And so we have to vote them out somehow Our time has come and I think they know They change the locks on the ballot-box when They can and they think they can again They do everything they can think of to Discourage the rest of us and do To keep us down from voting them out but Though trickled-down on by politics We are who can do this no matter what Our time has come and they have to go Up to shenanigans to keep us down We have to run their circus out of town IV Seeing us appear Involved in all the fuss Of evolving us Devolving to our shame The fist is to blame But when the fist unfolds And another holds Unfolding as friends then Evolving again We go on as we came Being as we are Evolving pugilists Unfolding our fists Together come this far V I feel I have succeeded Transcending when I needed To by doing as I do Resisting then insisting On being now persisting Incoincidentally Being transcendentally Getting here from then to now Seeing how from now somehow Being as I am as who Made it this far more or less Being crazy all the way And yet being anyway Being a success I guess Better now at being me Than how I have been before Having less but being more Understanding finally Letting go let me go free Wondering if I should be Answering the question yes Being a survivor of Past fear laughing last for love Steven Curtis Lance