As I was climbing on the stairs
The stairs climbed me all unawares
When language stops dividing me
The horse I ride is riding me
And now my house is living in me
And now my food is eating me
Your language is mistaking me
But I'm so woke it's waking me

And now my confusion is a kind of clarity
I won't let your languaging get the better of me

There goes the fool on top of it all
Later he'll befall a fall
Clever people stay down low
Where there's no place lower to go
As I was climbing on the stairs
The stairs climbed me all unawares
The jokes you make keep laughing at me
The things you break keep breaking me

Structures all around us have their uses all implied
But I won't let that escalator take me for a ride

The things I own are owning me
And now this song is singing me
Why, when no-one's making me
Something is mistaking me
And now my confusion is a kind of clarity
But I won't let that escalator escalate me

Structures all around us have their uses all implied
But I won't let your languaging take me for a ride