Four Chambered Heart

We break and train our children just like animals

We fill 'em up with parasites and poison dreams of fear

We hand them false gods on a golden platter

Then we remind them to watch behind their ears

We gave up our own dreams so the kid could go to college

Then they grow up and resent us

Accuse us of impossible psychological crimes

The normal relationship in hell is about getting even

But you won't find that in your Sunday New York Times

Anger, sadness, hatred, envy

These are just fear wearing the same old cheap mask

You're doomed if you don't learn forgiveness, sister

We're all driving around lost, we don't know who to ask

We're all stopping at abandoned gas stations to ask directions

There's no more road maps to tell us who the hell we are

Raised on TV commercials, organized religion

Following corrupt wise men who've been navigating by the wrong star

When a man and a woman couple up there's really four people talking

Hidden people, outer images, who you gonna start?

So two people in love are like one big old crocodile

Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts

Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts

Now they tell me there's some guy down in Dallas named Olie

He's running some type of early

Christian community down there I'm told

Well the Gnostic gospel said whatever you bring forth will save you

Everything you don't bring forth will shatter your soul

Christ said my kingdom is not of this world, but hell

They went and built their earthly kingdoms anyway

Then they paid out millions of dollars to defend pedophile priests

Meanwhile people are living in the gutter holding signs

"Have you hugged your kid today?"

We reach the end of the road and find

Out no one else can make us happy

We've waged all the wars of drama and control

We've sacrificed it all for wives

Husbands, money, children, false religion

That old line about gaining the world but losing your soul

So it's always back to living with yourself

Or whoever it is living in your body

Grandpa said don't put the horse before the cart

Me, I'm just an old alligator swimming through dark uncharted waters

And alligators have four-chambered hearts

When a man and woman couple up there's

Really four people always talking, talking

Hidden person, outer person, where the hell you gonna start?

Two people in love are just one big

Old crocodile swimming through the mud

Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts

I said crocodiles have four-chambered hearts

Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts