White Elephant (Live At The Sydney Opera House)

"White Elephant"

The white hunter sits on his porch

With his elephant gun and his tears

He'll shoot you for free if you come around here

Damn

A protester kneels on the neck of a statue

The statue says "I can't breathe"

The protester says "Now you know how it feels"

And he kicks it into the sea

I am a Botticelli Venus with a penis

Riding an enormous scalloped fan

And a sea foam woman rising from the spray

And I'm coming to do you harm

With a gun in my pants full of elephant tears

And a seahorse on each arm

With my elephant gun of tears

I'll shoot you all for free

If you even think of coming around here

I'll shoot you in the fucking face

If you think of coming around here

I'm an ice sculpture melting in the sun

I'm an ice sculpture with an elephant gun

I'm an ice sculpture made of elephant-sized tears

Raining gas and salt upon your heads

The president has called in the Feds

I've been planning this for years

I'll shoot you in the fucking face

If you think of coming around here

I'll shoot you for just for fun

I'm a statue lying on my side, in the sun

With the memory of an elephant

Evaporating before your eyes

And becoming a great grey cloud of wrath

Roaring my salt upon the earth

I'll shoot you all for free if you so much as look at me

A time is coming

A time is nigh

For the kingdom in the sky

Well, don't ask who and don't ask why

There's a kingdom in the sky

Yeah, we're all coming home

For a while

A time is coming

A time is nigh

For the kingdom in the sky

We're all coming home

In a while

(In a while, yeah, in a while, yeah)

Yeah

Thank you, thank you

Alright