Heifer

I wanna be

A heifer

Who does nothing but just

Graze eternally

Listening to a shepherd

With the worst ordained for me

Planning to use every single

Part of my body

I'd give it all away

There's a cattle prod stuck into me

That makes me squirm and makes me scream

That puts me on my way

There's a wagon wheel I'm pulling west

And I don't know where I'm going

But I'm just cruising at a speed

I don't wanna be

Cattle in a flash flood where I'm

Tangled in the trees

Sucking on salinity

For all eternity

Buried by the water that just

Washes over me

Everything I had

I'd give it all away

There's something strange that comes over me

Like a motor car or an ocean breeze

That keeps me on my pace

There's something that keeps pushing me

Like a drover horse or a wound-up spring

That lurches me out of place