i was raised in a red brick house in a small townnwhen i was 12 i saw a bear get gunned downnby my uncle michael and his schreiner buddies with their shiny riflesni was quite maligned by my kin at the timenwhen i was assigned in science classnto find a bone fragment buried in the nature nearbyni dug the bear up and bleached its' bones drynncries of protest, flies upon the old fleshni thought i would win first prize, no contestnbut before i could claim my 'A' at schoolni had the misfortune of sorting through garden toolsnin the shed my grandfather builtnwith carpentry skills honed at the harvard carvers guildnnhard labor i was forced to donfrom the blue moonlight until the day became noonni reburied the bear with hands and a shovelnthen my old man arrived, removing me from troublenntraveling home i heard the storynof the secret seal solomon allegorynon an old cassette, from a man i metnat the age of 8, his face i couldn't forgetnhe was a member of the scroll and keynwhen he was old as me, they said he rolled the stolen holly treenfrom the great city of colognento the papal throne at the vatican in romenwhere a goblin sitsnon his throbbing fistnfull of gold that he stole from unconscious twitsnn(oooooh you were scramblin' plapsnyou were jammin' on bears and bricksnhow cool is that?nyeah, i really like to have fun)nnbrown bears and building bricksnboth symbolically classically masculine solid shitnvery earthy, a dangerous marriagena brown bear that could throw bricks would scare kidsnbut conversely, a civilized bear nwith some masonry skills wouldn't killn(wouldn't care!)nabout outside affairs that don't concern himnhe'd be in his brick house - throwing, burning!nthrowing secrets out for all to findnbasically burning the eye of horus blindnviceroy and plaps rip the royal rapsnit's chorus time, we're bringing purple back!nnwe get to keep our treatsnfree of fee, out of reachnsneaky thieves on creaky roofsnget broken ribs from mountain bootsnnwe get to keep our treatsnfree of fee, out of reachnsneaky thieves on creaky roofsnget broken ribs from mountain bootsnnwe get to keep our treatsnfree of fee, out of reachn(when they approach your doorntryin'a take your goldnrig it with dynamite, and it will all explode)nnsneaky thieves on creaky roofsnget broken ribs from mountain bootsnn(when they approach your doorntryin'a take your goldnrig it with dynamite, and it will all explode)