[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
Have I told you about the Neverness Hoax
A vile trick perpetrated on you innocent folks
Was it in the fall of '93
During the rise of the galaxy
A tiny shift in our trajectory
A little more substance to the unimaginary
(And you smile) The Neverness Hoax
(And you smile) The Neverness Hoax
The confederation was in disgrace
They jettisoned their rubbish into inner space
Sweet toxic love all over the place
Cupid's agent off his face
Have I told you about the Neverness Hoax
Religion to many, to others the butt of their jokes
There came a disturbance in the Indian sea
Something in the depths, a monstrosity
An invisible woman kept a file on me
Trying to seduce my immediacy
(And you smile) The Neverness Hoax
(And you smile) The Neverness Hoax
The mechanical royalties will never recover
The pleasure back from her animal lovers
The futures slide back one after another
And wouldn't you know it, it's the people that suffer
From the Neverness Hoax
(And you smile)
(And you smile)
(And you smile)
[rev. Aug. 9, 2015]
[Backmasking at very beginning of track: "The dream kings."]
Well then I dreamed we were washed up in New Guinea
Castaways on a hostile shore
Purple waves on the salty ocean breaking
The music flowing underneath your bedroom door
Wouldn't you know it
That's a fact
Wouldn't you know it
Just in time for your vanishing act
I said "Hey Isadora, get undressed"
As if that's any way to treat a guest
Like the wild winds above us, frothing on the sky
You'll become immortal on the day that you die
Wouldn't you know it
That's a fact
Wouldn't you know it
Just in time for your vanishing act
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
What you need is a flattering mirror
A strong elixir with no hangover properties
Nineteen year old lovers who can stay hard all night
A million dollars with no strings attached
I said yeah yeah yeah
But you don't know where you can find it
I said yeah yeah yeah
Life's little luxuries
What you need is a vial full of ass's milk
Your very own doctor to prescribe you the blues
A brilliant career with critical acclaim
Orgasms, riches, power or fame
I said yeah yeah yeah
But you don't know where you can find it
Yeah yeah yeah
Life's little luxuries
Yeah yeah yeah
But you don't know where you can find it
Yeah yeah yeah
Life's little luxuries
A trip to India, drift down the Ganges (yeah yeah yeah)
A copy of Justine, signed by de Sade (but you don't know where you can find it)
A bag or two of Neil's purple heads (yeah yeah yeah, life's little luxuries)
Gold-tipped, silver-printed, black calling cards
A villa in Sydney, an igloo in Alaska (yeah yeah yeah)
A girl who would come anytime I ask her (but you don't know where you can find it)
Thirteen red peacocks with eyes like the sun (yeah yeah yeah, life's little luxuries)
Monogrammed bullets for my pearl-handled gun
Rolls' and Mercedes, a dozen blue poles (yeah yeah yeah)
The flesh of my servants, the deed to their souls (but you don't know where you can find it)
To meet Damien Lovelock from The Celibate Rifles (yeah yeah yeah, life's little luxuries)
Chocolates and salmon, truffles and trifles
Wait there's more... I can think of more (yeah yeah yeah)
(Oh well you don't know where you can find it)
In fretless basses, in your faces (yeah yeah yeah, life's little luxuries)
In spare places, yeah, there's gotta be more
(Yeah yeah yeah)
[Originally by The Crystal Set - "A Drop In The Ocean" single b-side]
[rev. Oct. 30, 2006]
At the heart of her outrage
There lies a thread of tears
Stories of lost times
She'll spread among her peers
And we touched a land
Of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says
Love will never stay
She looked upon our years
She counted up our days
Watched the sky last night
Though the topics were aligned
My vision was obscured
By the things I couldn't find
And we touched a land
A land of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says
Love will never stay
And she looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
And we touched a land
A land of weeds where nothing grows
And she watched my eyes
And she knows
She says
She says that love will never stay
She looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
She says
Love will never stay
And she looked upon our years
And she counted up our days
(It's so regular)
[rev. Oct. 30, 2006]
On to the next dream we run
But still I feel like I've been stung
With all the phrases I've been sung
All the puppets I've hung among
I can't forget their stupid eyes
Their vague attempts to patronize
The very nonsense I despise
While sizing up the pig sty's cries
Amphibian baby
I hardly know your name
But ever since you came in me
I haven't been the same
You've got your certain method
Time is up your sleeve
Old age crawled inside your bod
And wait for me to leave
I must have left my keys somewhere
I must have left my drink somewhere
I must have left my drugs somewhere
I must have left my clothes somewhere
I must have left my flesh somewhere
I must have left my bones somewhere
I must have left my soul somewhere
Don't bother to count, the money's all there
Amphibian baby
I've dealt with you before
Your gills and pills won't pay my bills
I'm showing you the door
The rain is beating harder
The fabric that we weave
Will not cover up the grotesque rain
Please wait for me to leave
[3:44 - Start of overlapping voices]
I need some words, I just made this up, I can't be sure, sweet
(you know, it's been raining for such a long time)
Nothing didn't sync up 'cause I haven't found that number
(and I'm as indiginated, I'm losing ??? [3:56])
All covered in jewels and the dragonflies, oh yes
(I was dreaming, in a dream I imagined all of this)
Will you then hold me in duress
(across the bridge, over the eternal water)
Night comes down, insistent bitch, till nine
(where they will patiently wait)
Stumbling before (...insistent bitch...) she had her hollow eyes
(screams)
And it's strangely pink and strange to think it'll be love
(I've been laying with my pain ??? [4:26], and somebody gave me the main impulse)
(in a moment of life, well I wish I'd smashed that wedding [4:35])
You figured he has gone (??? [4:37] but it's me in that picture you're keeping)
You figured he has gone (??? [4:42] and there I was)
Tall dark trees don't shake when they look at me
(now chaos tell me it's now today, dreamed up this world when you wrote me a letter)
Seven hearts, seventeen years
(I was ???) [4:54]
(he wrote me a letter, so many letters)
(then you fished out a smoking letter)
That's not true he said
(a red cinder falling down without an instance)
When you look at your hands
(it all seems so long ago)
(comb the street)
(touched me)
(you were patient, waiting for a reply)
(dangles, playing the sets)
(cast in the breeze)
I couldn't have taken her
(I could not answer you personally)
Built it does, does not....
[rev. Oct. 30, 2006]
Good times are a'coming
Well I saw it in a vision
I've heard it in evangelist's sighs
Down beyond the station
Yonder lies salvation
In the afternoons and the skies
A child has been born
Who can converse with the corn
Who has access to the sadness of the trees
Decipher the cicadas
When his legs will take him farther
He'll be fed royal jelly from the bees
Random Pan
Random Pan
They say the spirit's manifesting
And the eagles have been nesting
And the river meditates with silver fish
Sigh the waving sea of reeds
Where the sacred swans will feed
Providence provides you with a wish
And you wish to understand
And you look down at your hands
And your fingers are all feathered and divine
If you fade into the darkness
All the softness and the starkness
As the manna drains into your mind
Random Pan
Random Pan
Good times are a'coming
Well I saw it in a vision
I've heard it in evangelist's sighs
Down beyond the station
Yonder lies salvation
In the afternoons and the skies...
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
Dionysus and Apollo are up in the sky
Their brand of contradiction makes me want to cry
For four thousand years I've been accruing my bones
Looking for a god who won't leave me alone
It's not easy to find
Should put it right out of my mind
Boys I must have been blind
It's the pain in my temples
It's not easy to find
Should put it right out of my mind
Boys I must have been blind
It's the pain in my temples
[rev. Oct. 30, 2006]
Liquid (she drank like she was in me)
Liquid (she's drinking more of everything)
She drained an ocean out of me
Left me washed up in bankruptcy
Like a storm far out to sea, she's gone
Liquid (she drank like she was in me)
Liquid (she's drinking more of everything)
She ran like water through my hands
Silver drops on thirsty lands
Then she sank into the sand, she's gone
Liquid (she drank like she was in me)
Liquid (she's drinking more of everything)
Stranded on a saw-toothed reef
She bled my life beyond belief
Just another fluid thief, she's gone
(Sometime)
Sometimes I think of the lives I could have led
Before the sweet nectar, heat and lust came shimmering out of my head
In a salty cave I perspire pure oblivion
A sexual dimension, of black and vermillion
She said I'm drowning, in the voice of an alien
There was no life for me
Sometimes I plan the revenge I will sustain
The rapture of the deep, rivers and rain
We swam through a channel of an underground cleft
I couldn't keep going, I was losing my breath
Woozy with fever, catching my death
There was no cure for me
Sometimes I remember the blue island skies
Well I was seeing the world through enchanted eyes
Coral cut my fingers, my blood tasted good
She dived in and drank more than she should
Left me drifting like driftwood
There was no hope for me
Sometimes I hear the birds, the crash of the waves
Across the black lake where the fisherman slaves
Electric eels in translucent coils
The lava erupts and the green ocean boils
Taking her bait, burning my oils
There was no stopping me
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
You were always the favorite of all of my servants
Tall as an oak when your forehead broke
Revealing a head full of serpents
Oh the silence where the smoke has blown
Ahh Goliath, let's get stoned
We're on our own
You were only saying yesterday that they'll never bring you down
But you fell like a bird when the little cat purred
Crashing on the holy ground
Without violence you were overthrown
Ahh Goliath, let's get stoned
We're on our own
You were almost too heavy to carry or to drag away
You lost your head like they always said you would
I hope you're feeling better today
Oh the silence when the bird has flown
Ahh Goliath, let's get stoned
Ahh the silence when the bird has flown
Ahh Goliath, let's get stoned
[Faint, drowned out lyrics start at 4:34]
[Backmasking at very end of track: "Can't find Australia."]
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
In some lysergic Africa
You've come back as a warrior
It won't be York and Lancaster
Now in Abyssinia
Now the elephants are dead and gone
And everything's been put back wrong
Ivory and diphtheria
In some lysergic Africa
In some lysergic Africa
The naked cladden wanderer
A prophet in this land of time
But also a great conjuror
And behold, behold the wastes where once lay soil
Sodden with grease and oil
Albert and Victoria
In some lysergic Africa
In some lysergic Africa
The chiefs are getting drowsier
Your water has the sickness
It's flowing through to them
This underground jugular falls and freezes
But the land it stops and drops and sneezes
Lord of his conch, it's two-thirty
In some lysergic Africa
In some lysergic Africa
Outside it's on the ground
The slaves that bring the dirt home
Of the burning green earth
With their blues and Christian hands
They evaporate upon the sands
Nothing could be easier
In some lysergic Africa
In some lysergic Africa
The drums were starting earlier
Calling down Baal and Zeus and ??? [2:08]
Floating down the endless Nile
Moses don't you touch that dial
They lived around the calendar
In some lysergic Africa
In some lysergic Africa
Some boy from Italia
Standing stoned, ignores your path
Helps us cross the Mafia
Who already set off in their tanks
Manned to gun the governments
Elysian Field, deliria
In some lysergic Africa
Instrumental
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
Danielle, Danielle
Danielle you're looking old today
Like someone came along, stole all your years away
The pale sun will not forgive your face
In shadows all the gentlemen who spent time in this place
In hell, (Danielle) Danielle
Your bruises and your powder cause bad dreams
Your yellow teeth and desperate eyes make small children scream
There's no one in the waiting room, there's nothing in your purse
Abstracted laugh breaks down into a cough then a curse
In hell, (Danielle) Danielle (in hell)
(Danielle, in hell)
Danielle, please don't look that way at me
I didn't drink your absinthe, or tell your family
Sometimes we pretend it's Paris, sometimes it's more Berlin
The real outside cannot divide the unholy sin within
In hell, Danielle (Danielle, Danielle)
This is hell, Danielle
(Danielle, Danielle...)
And she dreamed that she was flying
And she dreamed that he was holding her up
And she dreamed that she was hiding
From the fire below
He was patient, she was not a girl anymore
Instrumental
[rev. Oct. 30, 2006]
There's no such thing as remindlessness
There's no such thing as time
There's no such thing as endlessness
There's no such kind of crime
There's no such thing as distance
There's no such thing as doubt
There's no such thing as magic, no
And if there was well I would've found out
I would've
I live in the solid world, I don't believe in ghosts
And verification, not imagination, I like my logic the most
A jealous god is a god of law, he taxes numbers and steel
It makes me proud to shout out loud that all these things are real
There's no such thing as surrealism
There's no such thing as soul
There's no such thing as intuition
There's no such thing as rock and roll
There's no such thing as love babe
It's just a chemical in your mind
There's no such thing as coming back
Empirical evidence is hard to find
I live in the concrete now, enjoy my beer and sport
I'm not moved if it can't be proved or settled out of court
Don't believe in miracles, please don't mention the church
Someone said it's all in your head, but it wasn't worth the search
I live in the solid world, I don't believe in ghosts
Verification, not imagination, I like my logic the most
A jealous god is a god of law, he wields numbers and steel
It makes me proud to shout out loud that all these things are real
They're real, airy-fairy
highfalutin, newfangled whippersnappers and upstarts
I'll believe in what I can touch
That's not much
It's not my problem if you believe in fairies and elves and gnomes
And genies and witches and goblins and dreams and non-manifest identities
Inchoate pantheon of non-existent gods
Can't touch it
Don't touch it
It's nothing
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
Oh this body gets in the way (it's so foreign)
A reminder, a viewfinder for you
Poor old Mr. Faust
He had to sign in blood
Surrounded by temptation
Brimstone and mud
I'm never gonna be the one to say
I'll never stop to love you this way (hey baby)
Let these words set an example
Let my song be a soul sample (hey baby)
Breathlessly where you scream (it's so far away)
An enigma, a big fragment for you
Bless this imperfect child
It's been a long hard fight
Emerging from the cottony sheets
We'll try to fly tonight
I'm never gonna be the one to say
I'll never stop to love you this way (hey baby)
Let these words set an example
Let this song be a soul sample (hey baby)
(It's so foreign)
Poor old Mr. Faust
He offered me a job
Deliver this package to a friend inside
When my heart began to throb
I'm never gonna be the one to say
I'll never stop to love you this way (hey baby)
Let these words set an example
Let this song be a soul sample (hey baby)
I'm never gonna be the one to say
I'll never stop to love you this way (hey baby)
Let these words set an example
Let this song be a soul sample (hey baby)
(Oh baby, baby, baby)
[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]
I know you don't believe anymore
So I wonder where you got the knowledge
Without desire to acquire more
In the service of your master
You can take a faster door
I know you don't pretend anymore
I wonder where you got the silver
I wonder how you got the power
I wonder where you got the fire
It isn't that surprising
A spiritual uprising, could affect things now
Down the street the celebration's
Reached disintegration, surging past anyhow
In the service of your master
You can take a faster door
Servants all we ebb and flow
Remindless as we come and go
Changeless as we die and grow
Cold dead womb and troubled seas
Resonate in sympathy
I know one day you'll come to me
With the faint whir of leathery wings
Evoking all impossible things
Eternal twilight feels so cold
When the money's all gone your love's been sold
The elephant god sits impassive
His ivory tusks are black and massive
We sway and we curve and we splinter in fits
Drum 'round his throne where he patiently sits
The law of the jungle, the jungle of law
Devil of the rich, god of the poor
In this frenzied crowd I lose my isolation
As we merge together in celebration
The elephant god sits unmoved
His distant eyes are tongued and grooved
The noise and the smell and the terrible dancers
Pertinent questions and nebulous answers
Servants all we ebb and flow
Remindless as we come and go
Changeless as we die and grow
Cold dead womb and troubled seas
Resonate in sympathy
I know one day you'll come to me
Out in material worlds
My fingers chase remindlessness
But just holding emptiness
I known I've worn this face before
In El Dorado just once more
You're everything I'm lookin' for
The songs of dancers fade away
2001 became the way
I'll pay your ransom for today
And it still seems such a waste
One brief life and one brief taste
All the phantoms have been chased
To eternity
Instrumental