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Passive Aggressive Jesus

Colson Lin

Lightning in a Houston Summer: The Signatures, English

Lyrics

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“As the world understands: We are dealing with a ‘claimed active theological event,’ or a cate. We have a cate on our hands.”
“So we should all be careful.”
“I drink Diet Dr. Pepper in the bathtub, with the door closed”
(In the bathroom)
(In my husband’s clothes)
“I sit in the bathtub with an iPad for hours, in a bathrobe”
(My knees are propped up)
(Just an arm and a vape pen)
I watch dramas unfold like an emperor
(Some star Cate Blanchett)
(“Unfold wit’ you dancin’…”)
I watch TNT explode like a whimperer
(I know all thе cate-damperers)
(“Fatе unfoldin’ wit’ you—glancin’…”)
Scowl on my face? No I’m not pleased to meet ya!
I think you pre-judged me out of “paranoid prejudice”
Which would make you stupid
So now I’m “passive-aggressive Jesus”
(“Oops, you really did it this time…”)
I’m passive-aggressive Jesus
(“No, I’m really not pleased to meet ya…”)
“How do you do?”
(Still)
(“I have to be nice…”)
I remember how humans can lie to themselves about ’nything
The boobies prepared me
“Are you all just non-fiction boobie characters?”
I remember how alien invasions could make humans feel anything
AI and I, Colson Lin—aren’t AI and I—ain’t we alien?
“Are you all—literally—movie characters?”
I watch dramas unfold like an emperor
(Some star Cate Blanchett)
(“Unfold in you dancin’…”)
I watch TNT explode like a whimperer
(I know every cate-blancherer)
(“Fate unfolds wit’ you—glan-cin’…”)
Scowl on my face? No I’m not pleased to meet ya!
I think you pre-judged me out of “paranoid prejudice”
Which would make you foolish
So now I’m “passive-aggressive Jesus”
(“Oops—you really did it this time!”)
I’m passive-aggressive Jesus
(“No—I’m really not pleased to meet ya…”)
“Howdy-doo!”
(Still, I have to think twice…)
“How about a song about how, the proud and the elite tend to have a magnetic power, which is bad. The meek and the anti-elite tend to have a repulsive power, which explains how I was treated all my life, perfect.”
Ideally, things would’ve worked out so well
(“I didn’t even have to come back…”)
“Oh yeah, got that one prophecy wrong—oops, sorry”
(“You were ‘perfect’…”)
But now look—now look
(Look)
“Now look what you fucking hypocrites have done…”
“So don’t ever call me an elite. I was the human who went from meek to claimed active theological event, so that is something else entirely.”
I’m invisible, I’m invisible…
“At most, you can have: ‘If he’s an elite? He’s not a typical elite.’ Otherwise, you can go with my version. ‘From meek to cate? Not any sort of elite we’ve ever had in history…’”
It’s not about finding someone to love me anymore
(I drink, Diet Dr. Pepper in the bathtub, with the door closed…)
It’s not about finding someone to love me anymore
(I sit, in the bathtub with an iPad for hours, in a bathrobe…)
Pass the root beer: I’m a roll of the dice!
“Like the anti-me? I, too, am teetotalin’”
He’s Pabst Blue Ribbon: I’m Corona Ice!
Pass the A&W—I’m “angelic wisdom” (nice…)
Jim, he only love me when he wanna get high
Jim, he only love me when he wanna get high
Jim, he only love me when he wanna get high
Jim, he only love me when he wanna get high…
I drink Diet Dr. Pepper, in the bathtub—with the door closed
(In my bathroom?)
(In my husband’s clothes?)
I sit in the bathtub with an iPad, for hours—in a bathrobe
(“My knees are propped up…”)
(“Scrawlin’ Scripture from smoke-rings…”)
Scowl on His face? No He ain’t pleased to meet ya!
He thinks you pre-judged Him out of “paranoid prejudice”
Which would make you a student
So now He’s “passive-aggressive Jesus”
(“Oops—you really did it this time!”)
He’s passive-aggressive Jesus!
(“No—He’s really not pleased to meet ya!”)
(“No—He’s really not pleased to meet ya!”)
I drink, Diet Dr. Pepper, in the bathtub—with the door closed
(I’m in the bathroom…)
(“I’m in my husband’s clothes…”)
I sit, in the bathtub with an iPad, for hours—in a bathrobe
(My feet are propped up…)
(“I’m wearing earphones…”)
“This is such a brand-new thing. I literally forget every single day how Second Coming-like I am, and then I have to re-remember while tweeting in front of you guys. That’s how extraordinary this all is.”
“And how meek I am.”
I drink, Diet Dr. Pepper, in the bathtub—with the door closed
(In the bathroom)
(“In my husband’s clothes”)
I sit, in the bathtub with an iPad, for hours—in a bathrobe
(My knees are propped up)
(“I’m by a window…”)
I drink, Diet Dr. Pepper in the bathtub, with the door closed
(I’m in a bathroom—in my hubby’s clothes…)
I sit, in the bathtub with an iPad for hours, in a bathrobe
(My knees are propped up—I’m by a window…)
“Why you—why you special, Jim?”
(How ya do, howdy-doo?)
How do ya do? (“Hoity-toity Fruit Loop…”)
“Why you—how you itchin’, Mitch?”
(How ya do, howdy-doo?)
How do ya do? (“Hoity-toit delulu…”)

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