BEETLE ON MY THUMB The more I read the more I know About the things that make me glow A passage here, a message there Create a world that I can share I bless the life that gives me choice In all the moments I can voice From all the joy and all the strain Stories end up here to stay One by one I write them down One by one they spin around One by one they make me hum Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they settle down One by one they have me frown One by one they make me numb Like a beetle on my thumb Fleeting bits of sound and light Are hammered in my mind Pretty rhymes are sung along Pouring life into a song Notions of the past and fate Set the tone for big debates On what is mad and what is sane And all the efforts not in vein One by one they give me peace One by one they make me freeze One by one they beat the drum Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they set me free One by one they let me be One by one they leave me dumb Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they give me peace One by one they make me freeze One by one they beat the drum Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they set me free One by one they let me be One by one they leave me dumb Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they photograph One by one they paragraph One by one they make me jump Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they epitaph One by one they telegraph One by one they focus on The beetle on my thumb One by one they photograph One by one they paragraph One by one they make me jump Like a beetle on my thumb One by one they epitaph One by one they telegraph One by one they focus on The beetle on my thumb