[intro] [spoken in a high pitched mocking , jeering voice] You talk funny You talk funny You talk funny You talk funny [spoken in a calm adult voice] Indeed i do. Can i tell you why? [verse] Rhetoric ever quick Sinks steel into cement Constructs of semantics String hammocks of mesh To further reinforce the curing cement [chorus] [spoken in a high pitched mocking , jerring voice] You talk funny You talk funny You talk funny You talk funny [verse] (Its flexible redirectable predictable Give and flow ) [verse] From brass tacks to couched Tongue in cheek or pillowed Blows the pliability like billows Fanning the fires of memory (Morphing freeform ink blots Of thought clots forming The building blocks of fantasy) Fantasy the key to prediction Wherein the low diction Cannot compete [verse] [spoken with am upswing to the voice] Its thought that eloquence is for others (But i do disagree ) Without the words or finesse One cannot discern the differences Which experience’s are expressed Or possibilities at hand For the low of diction To envision what they cannot say Is frustration and close to futility No mesmer skill was built Monosyllabically (Its elementary, child.) [verse] (If one cannot touch taste or see ‘free’ Understanding freedom is unlikely Unless ones words Extend ones reach conceptually see:) Rhetoric, vocabulary, grammer Diction, idiom, vernacular Sarcasm, satire, parody Curt, quick, far reaching clarity Teaching, preaching, thinking Learning, exposition These tools carve out the rules By which all obey Make the sum and play In which the race is run Make the sum and play as They who master the word Master the way [chorus] [outro] [spoken] (What you choose to use your words to say Is another story pitfall fraught wrought in glory or shame A story not for today) You talk funny You talk funny You talk funny You Talk Funny