[rev. May 28, 2015]
Cool water snake glides a skyscraper lake
In its serpentine chimes the reverb overtakes
Chromatic man, meadow in a can
Daddy you can do it if anybody can
Ride with the monarch
Ride with the monarch
Searching up a sidestreet holographic haze heat
Simulated blackout in the back beat
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Nothing in this world he can't erase
With his magnetic head and a well turned phrase
Talking 'bout machines that justify the means
Pyramid schemes ripping at the seams
Phantom power drones authenticity
Everywhere the hum of spilled electricity
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Purple velvet liquid coming on so vivid
Drink the pink elixir just the way that he did
See the crash of Rome not too far from home
All the clustered cities underneath the dome
Windows start to vibrate
It orchestrates the earthquake
Queen to knights pawn three
I'll bet you that its checkmate
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
Ride with the monarch (with the monarch)
[rev. May 28, 2015]
Give me your hand
You've got powdered glass in your blood
Replicated and shattered
A quicksilver flood
Night sky bends down its clusters to almost taste
Don't let your shelter go to waste
Let me be your shelter
If you've ever felt a thing for me
Is there anything you see in me
You've got one of me, I've got one of you
I'd burn up alone if you want me to see it through
Prove it to you
Tell me your real name
You've had other names in the past
Those sirens screamed them all at us
When you were lashed to the mast
Nightsky exhales its moondrug
Your drink is laced
Don't let this shelter go to waste
Let me be your shelter / Let me be
If you've ever felt a thing for me / If you've ever felt a thing for me
Is there anything you see in me
You've got one of me, I've got one of you / You've got one of me, I've got one of you
I'd burn up alone if you want me to see it through
Prove it to you
Let me be your shelter
If you've ever felt a thing for me
Is there anything you see in me
You've got one of me, I've got one of you
I'd burn up alone if you want me to see it through
Prove it to you
Let me be your shelter / Let me be
If you've ever felt a thing for me / If you've ever felt a thing for me
Is there anything you see in me
You've got one of me, I've got one of you / You've got one of me, I've got one of you
I'd burn up alone if you want me to see it through
Prove it to you
[rev. May 28, 2015]
I like the stand the tall palms take
Reaching up far back to the primitive days
I like the stand in the sand the way
Of the waves all willing to take me in
I'd like to see good fortunes face
But I did I was wishing for just a taste
Of something sweet and minted pennies
That stay on tight on my eyes
But its March now
It's the shiny time
You've got to march in time
I'd like the world I never knew
It never was except for you
I'd like to be the rescuee
Just like the part you wrote for me
Your ink too orange and leaking through
Who could gaze the coals we've walked into
We swagger tough and bluff and stuff
But still enough is never enough
But its March now
It's the shiny time
You've got to march in time
I'd like to lie on a raft and moving
Fast the good times all spinning past
And fancy draped in beaded gown
My fingers dripping as night comes down
I guess I'll float with the truncated heads
And think this through even when I'm dead
I'll never say enough is enough
This is just the way the rainbow looks close up
But its March now
It's the shiny time
You've got to march in time
Ahh its March now
It's the shiny time
You've got to march in time
Ahh its March now
It's the shiny time
You've got to march in time
Ahh its March now
It's the shiny time
[rev. May 28, 2015]
If you hear those horsemen coming
I'll tell you now it's gonna be all right
Hills resounding to their drumming
Down the valley and into the night
Oh baby, you don't have to worry
Everything is justifed
Oh baby, you don't have to worry
Everything is on your side
Cause were going to a land
Where everybody's gonna understand
That the time has come
Now go and get ready
I won't even look behind me
A dusty picture of my old life
Press my face into the shoulder
Of the one with the colored eyes
Oh baby, you don't have to worry
Everything is justifed
Oh baby, you don't have to worry
Everything is on your side
Cause were going to a land
Where everybody's gonna understand
That the time has come
Now go and get ready
Go and get ready
Go and get ready
Go and get ready
[rev. May 28, 2015]
Antelope tramped into town
Twin sons bravado and despair (and despair)
Tiny sounds followed him around
All through the evening air (evening air)
He didn't realize
That time keeps passing on and on and on and on
Hours unsynchronize
Forty years in forty years are gone and on and on and on
In the smallest room I'll think of snow
And seal my chilly envelope around you
While the dusk settles in you know
Some unheard of antelopes without you
Heliotrope behind thick glass
I'd like to take you there some day (some day)
South Dakota comes with icy grass
When the painted backdrop molds away (molds away)
You'll never realize
Time keeps passing on and on and on and on
Memory solidifies
Twenty years in twenty years are gone and on and on and on
In the smallest room I'll think of snow
And seal my chilly envelope around you
You can see you're only free to go
Your sky uncloudy antelopes without you
Antelope sloped out of town
Twin sons bravado and despair (and despair)
Bells were ringing from the underground
All through the evening air
We never realized
While watching time pass on and on and on and on
We never realized
Until the wolves stopped howling what was gone and on and on and on
In the smallest room I'll think of snow
And seal my chilly envelope around you
While the dusk settles in you know
Some unheard of antelopes without you
[rev. May 28, 2015]
Hollywood in winter
You're supposed to show
Tonight too slight to hold the happy
Hope of life at all
Sunset loves me tender
Flowing with the go
Tonight's too light to hide inside
The yes that follows no
So I say maybe
Not to mention
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
A blue dimension
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
Hollywood in winter
Someone at the door
He used to live here years ago
But that was long before
You built the mansion
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
I never mention
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
Hollywood in winter
Somewhere far below
Action camera preaching
Practice thinking small
In its yellowed splendor
Ghosts all steal the show
Still I'm too slight to hold the happy
Hope of life at all
So I say maybe
Here in the mansion
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
That blue dementia
The mansion of the aching hearts
(Hollywood in winter)
[These 2 lines are repeatedly sung in the background starting at 3:44]
(All my love from Hollywood
Hollywood in winter)
[Spoken Part]
I ...uhh... heard about this... this guy, you know, he was umm...
working and he always knew I kinda ...?... [3:16]
Uhh... he was a car salesman, but he had this woman boss
So he's... ooh, I don't know...
So he goes, uhh...
"Sh-She said she had to talk to you about something,
so she ...?... [3:33]
And then she says, "Take a breath." And he does.
And then, uhh... she says, "Hold your palms up and repeat after me:
I'm open to all the good things in the universe."
And so he says, "I'm open to all the good things in the universe."
And then she says, "There is more than enough money in this world for me."
So he says, "There is more than enough money in this world for me."
? [4:11]
So lady-like. Another thing... she forgot her ? [4:20]
...?...
...she says, "Pray to God that stupid, stupid... fuck!
I'm not gettin' in your bed..."
...?...
Backstage when I was twenty-three
The count and lieutenant fought a strange duel over me
And I screamed as I ran down my hotel corridor
Each mirror reflecting more deep than before
Deep dark
Deeper than I could stand
Hands everywhere
On the orpheus circuit they drink from my mouth
And our hands touch and link and we drink and we drown
With land everywhere
On the orpheus circuit and everyone came
But the dark always starts past the cages of flame
On the stage fright
I can still taste that smoke
My voice
Ten seconds after I spoke
And my crush vivid gloves
That crawled up my arms
And white eyeless creatures
All hatched from the foam
Deep down
Deeper than I could stand
Hands everywhere
On the orpheus circuit they drink from my mouth
And our hands touch and link and we drink and we drown
Land everywhere
On the orpheus circuit and everyone came
But the dark always starts past the flames on the stage
[rev. May 28, 2015]
Aquamarine
Try not to break
Luminous days
Points in the distance
An Indian Summer echo returns
rolling in glossy mossy riverbeds
Where highway once burned
Notice the hum by the newness of its absence
The silence spreads like syrup
Its coating everything
Aquamarine
Thanks anyway
Recurring nights
An Indian Summer echo returns
rolling in glossy mossy riverbeds
Where highway once burned
Aquamarine
Try not to move
Luminous days
Points in the distance
Aquamarine
Aquamarine
Aquamarine
[rev. May 28, 2015]
It's thirty minutes since you went away
At 6:51
Each minute colder as the night decays
The music's just begun
I'll take your cup
And drink up what you left in it
Somebody melting in the room next door
Or maybe it was me
The saxophone plays on
The neon flicker's gone
Manhattan sings along
It sounds like ooh
A sign is swinging in the rain somewhere
Nobody's going there
The taxi driver's eyes are grey
Its just another day for him
The saxophone plays on
The neon flicker is gone
Manhattan sings along
It sounds like ooh
The saxophone plays on
The neon flicker is gone
Manhattan sings along
It sounds like ooh
Ooh
Ooh
One in the hips
One in the spine
One in the body
One in the throat
One in the mind
[Repeated to end of song (after 4th time the lines are echoed in the background)]
(Vast halos) [Repeated slowly in background starting at 2:12]