Come Alive

Bits of spirits
were set on a carpet of carbon.

Pieces of apes
were placed in a time of ice and iron.

Keep fit; survive.
Keep fit; survive.

Primitive Jeeps
crushed fossils and ancient bone.

Chandelier-sized flowers
aromatized pollen and chromosome.

Puzzles grew
on trees where mutilated fruit hung
like the hats
of inscrutable guests
who'd sipped their soft drinks and sung:

Keep fit; survive.
Keep fit; survive.
You won't recognise yourself 'til you come alive.

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

At Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport,
a Swiss pathologist missed his connecting flight.

An asteroid
kicked up the dust
the dinosaurs stubbornly bit.

Man's brain was taken;
the cortex stuck at an awkward angle on it.
His first words were:

What have I done to deserve the sun?
What have I done to deserve the rain?

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

[solos]

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi-Cola
brings your ancestors
back from the grave
back from the grave

[more solos]