Automatic Husband - The Fiery Furnaces

Thanks for asking, yes it’s true

We’ve been waiting for you

We’ve been waiting for you

Persuade your husband he should stay

At our disposal for today

And take down everything we say

About the new school bus assistant stuck in charge

Of leaving seven sleeping children in their seats in a trance

Induced by air conditioning

So I went back up to our room

And told my husband to sit down on the end table

And that he was getting very sleepy

When his eyes went out I put the pen back in his left hand

At phases 8 and 31 the four faculty’s are done, but the principals are some

The solar period, if you look, is like the bishop in the brook

So it says in this book

Writ by the new school bus assistant stuck in charge

Of leaving seven sleeping children in their seats in a trance

Induced by air conditioning

And don’t forget the imaginary map

Of the manifestations of

Murder making

Owned by the undertaker’s office

Otherwise known as

The cadaver’s cosmeticians

Local number dead as a door-nail in a church mouse’s chin

Or so said the birth chart I sent away to New Mexico for

It was made by a special commission of Navajo basketball coaches and blonde

ladies