The Bastard

If you ask me how I knew
I saw you
Had a bird's-eye view of a bird's-eye view
When I saw you
Saw you not as you think, simply just as you
I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even though it’s presaging pell-mell
All of it augers well
This is the bastard
This is the bastard
This is the bastard

Then you turned all Billy Sunday
Shoutin' Philadelphia for Christ and Christ for Philadelphia, yeh
As the sun groomed the plane with crepuscular rays
When I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even so, it’s presaging pell-mell
And all of it augers well
This is the bastard
This is the bastard
This is the bastard

Having to choose
Between a flickering fuse
And power beyond what you use

Never mind us purple italians
Never mind that pool in the mountains
Victory came and went on winged elephants
I saw you

And all of this augers well
Even though, even so it's presaging pell-mell
All of it augers well
This is the bastard
This is the bastard
This is the bastard
This is the bastard
This is the bastard