[Verse 1]
My rhyme ain't good just yet, my brain and tongue just met
And they ain't friends so far, my words don't travel far
They tangle in my hair and tend to go nowhere
They grow right back inside, right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice where they don't serve much use
No healthy calories, nutrition values
And I absorb back in the words right through my skin
They sit there festering inside my bowels
[Chorus]
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
[Verse 2]
Got a soundtrack in my mind all the time
Kids screamin' from too much beat up and they don't even rhyme
They just stand there, on a street corner
Skin tucked in and meat side out and shouting
I'd like to turn them down, but there ain't no knob
Born into picket fences, not into picket lines
All this hippie shit's for the '60s, another cliche in our time, but
What if one of these days, your heart will just stop ticking
And they sorta just don't find you till your cubicle is reeking?
[Chorus]
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
[Post-Chorus]
Ah
Ah
Dun-ts-ts, dun-ts-ts, dun-dun-dun
Dun-ts-ts, dun-ts-ts, dun-dun-dun
[Bridge]
Did you know that the gravedigger's still getting stuck in the machine
Even though it's a whole other daydream?
It's another town, it's another world
Where the kids are asleep and the loans are paid and the lawns are mowed
What'd you think? All the gravediggers were gone
Just 'cause one song is done? There's always another one
Waiting right around the bend 'til this one ends
Then it begins squeaky clean, and it starts all over again
The weather report keeps on tossing and turning
Predicting and warning and the warning and warning of
Possible leakage from news publications and
Possible leakage from news TV stations
That very same morning, right next to her coffee
She noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing
The National Geographic was being too graphic
When all she had wanted to know was the traffic
"The world's got a nosebleed," it said, "and we're flooding
But we keep on cutting the trees and the forests"
And we keep on paying those freaks on the TV
Who claim they will save us but want to enslave us
And sweating like demons, they scream through our speakers
But we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder
And no one's the killer and no one's the martyr
The world that has made us can no longer contain us
And prophets are silent, then rotting away 'cause
[Chorus]
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
[Post-Chorus]
Ah
Ah
Um-ts-ts, dun-ts-ts, dun-dun, dun-dun
Dun-dun-ts-ts, dun-ts, dun-dun
[Verse 3]
My rhyme ain't good just yet, my brain and tongue just met
And they ain't friends so far, my words don't travel far
They tangle in my hair and tend to go nowhere
They grow right back inside, right past my brain and eyes
Into my stomach juice where they don't serve much use
No healthy calories, nutrition values
And I absorb back in the words right through my skin
They sit there festering inside my bowels
[Chorus]
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds
The consonants and vowels
The consequence of sounds