Escalator - Momus

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