Ashes of ancients The nations repainted The chain gang chatelaine Changing the station The theme song playing The anthem of normal The horrible fanfare The horns get distorted On a public announcement The towns are impounded Where order resounded Cowards towered around it Power line buzzards Surveilling the night Talons in flight The fake horizons ignite
Banality lives where hysteria kills Civilian jungles with malaria pills Animals bleed to buy a star from the night Avenue kids wear a scar like a stripe Send up a signal to the heavenly rescue When the poison's coming from the person you're next to Let the voltage of thought pull the plug from the wound Cos if the soul is a symptom the condition is you
They know it's a letterbomb hand me down This thought is a perjury blindfold When she crawls from the Himalayan rain With her birds of prey and her weapons on the fire
She's riding a landslide down to me She's cutting the shackles off of me She's shaking the dead birds from the trees She's takin' the only air I breathe
Iron lungs and a plate glass sermon Don't call it death on the installment plan
She pulling the armor from my back And raking the coals over the tracks And taking the knife out from the stack She's bringing the blood that I had back
She's coming to see it's all a sin Coming to see the sun again Coming to wash it off again Coming to see her self again Coming to see her self again Coming to wash it off again
(weather report, woman's voice) The ?/ reports from the ?? radio station for 0400 GMT NW 4 Slight showers 70 minutes 1 thousand and ten falling slowly ??? away SWS 3 resent rain, 7 miles 1 thousand and 7 rising while slowly Lowick, W4 resent showers 16 miles, 1 thousand and 2, rising slowly
(Talking:person one) "I picture like an illuminated manuscript, ya know. made by monks, they hand do them ???... you'd have to have them hand done... each time" (stammering) "like change depending on what mood your in... like the best...or depending on like when you listen from a different age... could mean somethin' different" (Talking:person two) "I don't like it when they change" "....it....frightens me" (Talking:person one) "you want them to stay the same" (Talking:person two) "It makes me feel like someones pushing me from below...tryin' to put me... turn me over and put me down" "that's what it makes me feel like when they change." "it has to tell you how to live... it (stammering) has, is an instruction guide. Subtle. It doesn't push. It nudges. It entices..or suduces. It has to encompass the whole world. Everything that has been. That is. And will be. (Talking:person one) thats.. thats true (Talking:person two) "..AND could take it into space. And that's why you build a space ship. Because ultimately that's what space travel is all about. Was sending up ships from earth into space. And not just in some space shuttle thats got all the foam comming off of it. You need your own, glowing, ya know multi-colored.... space ship. It would be inside the space ship and also the space ship. You know what I'm saying? Like an exoskeleton.