Well, into the desert we must go So into the desert we go Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will
And you will grow out of me As naturally as branches from a tree Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will But you know they will swing Swing their swords for show While you turn your flower pedals so slow
You said the desert will eat us alive I said I make the decisions You just drive You just drive
And I saw the windmill raise from the ground And I heard the wind come creeping around Call it an act of easy mercy To tear the structure down Call it whatever you will
Call it whatever you will 'Cause you know they will swing Swing their swords for show While you turn your flower pedals so slow
But I am amazed at how they go I am amazed at how they go I am amazed at how they go
So call it whatever you will
Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will 'Cause you know they will swing Swing their swords for show
In my head it's a city at night Static gauge with the rush and the lights And on this concourse you look very fine But this place here is no friend of mine
And what you know can only mean one thing And what you know can only mean one thing Rooted to the place that you sprang from
And this dirt was a building before Tore it down before they opened the door Don't shout, don't holler, don't you cry What's past we'll just leave it behind
and I rode horse-shaped fire draggin' stereo wire and we rode chemicals until the breaking of dawn and I rose over a town, raised up by the sound of its drum and I rose out on the porches, again making horses lay down
and this place here is no friend of mine what's past, we'll just leave it behind and what you know can only mean one thing and what you know could only mean one thing rooted to the place that you sprang from
Language City is a bad old place We all know Where eyeballs float in space We all know
We were tired, we can't sleep It's crowded here, none of us leave Language City don't mean a thing to me
Audiences, the same program is always on I'd infer, it's best to avoid the law When your wife wakes up and sees Shut the blinds and block out the street Language City don't mean a thing to me
All this working Just to tear it down All this working Just to tear it down
Language City is a bad, old place We all know Eyeballs float in space We all know
We're tired, we can't sleep It's crowded in the street Language City don't mean a thing to me
I been here so long my heart is a parking lot Hollow feet rooted to the spot But the fields are beyond belief From tower out to where I can see Language City don't mean a thing to me
All this working Just to tear it down All this working Just to tear it down
On the telephone On the telephone On the telephone Someone's counting the hours In a paper room In a paper room In a paper room Somebody's counting the hours
Know I know it's true From above this room Somebody's counting the hours The hours The hours The houuuuurs
Oh the long bitter road Let us down Oh the ringing telephone There's no one around
We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home
We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home
Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone
California dreamer Tell me why did you go? I carved your ever fading figure Into the ever dying snow
I'll be around I'll be around I'll be around Like a teenager in town Where all the other young lovers are found
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio But the radio waves were like snow
And you were dreaming of Los Angeles While I was singing songs you wrote You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you While I made angels in the snow
I would have left if you just asked me to Or come to me before the preacher Now you're surviving
And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio But the radio waves were like snow And I thought I mighta heard you on the radio But the radio waves were like snow
Do the young stay pretty? Do the pretty stay quick? You know, but you never surrender The city doesn't belong to you anymore California dreamer
You dream of seasons that never die You go to oceans that never touch the ice You dream of seasons that never die You go to oceans that never touch the ice You dream of seasons that never die You go to oceans that never touch the ice
I surrender, the city to slender Creature's getting younger and younger
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio But the radio waves were like snow And I think I mighta heard you on the radio But the radio waves were like snow
Do the young stay pretty? Do the pretty stay quick? You know, but you never surrender The city doesn't belong to you anymore California dreamer
I'll be around I'll be around I'll be around Like a teenager in town With all the other young lovers, their mothers have been found California dreamer
Darling please, let's get out of here On a train to who-knows-where I got a feeling that I can't explain We have to leave this place, we won't go back again
Getting tired of landscapes, were just floating Rolling past the grey estates Oh oh, oh oh
We'll put the fire in your stomach out Movie tans all across your mouth Up through the window, the neon sing It blinks the telegraphs that don't mean a thing
And we crawl on to our destination Rolling past the grey estates Oh oh, oh oh
Rushing through a new world A new world, a new world, It's just a minute away
So let the needle on the compass swing Let the iron in your heart's blood ring Strike up the band as the ship goes down And if it's loud enough it will erase the sound
Of a hundred thousand sad inventions Let them rot inside the grey estate Oh oh - oh oh
Rushing through a new world A new world, a new world, It's just a minute away
I'm half-awake and the world is ending All across the border just a minute away I'm half-awake and the world is ending Across the border just a minute, just a minute away
Time after time you will forgive me Like an animal in your care But give it time and you will outlive me And take the bow back you put in my hair
Made a parade of myself in the street outside your house For the New York photographer there I fell for crime I fell for beauty I fell for you because you're the one that cared
And when I die you can put on costumes In the style of the clothes I wore And sing the songs your mother taught you When you were too young to know that this was what they were for
Like some dead relative you will remember me most By my funeral and all the beautiful toasts you made Take back the spade We've both been filling up our days like we were filling a grave
You let me hang hang hang around You put your ribbons in my hair It's in this language that I found I am an animal in your care
Animal in your care Animal in your care Animal in your care
It's in this language that I found I am an animal in your care
While stumbling where our hearts beat regular time Where the landscapes dump on rivers flowing by We're just drifting all night long, hands to the sky And our captain, oh, he is never denied
I hear them sinking out from shore, hands at their sides And we find a rock to hold the head to tear at the sky We're just drifting all night long here with the flies And our captain, oh, he is never denied
As if you didn't know that it would sting Kissing the beehive Pissing down the mountainside while nude in the rain As if you didn't know that it would sting Kissing the beehive And fucking up your finger from pushing on the ring
Well, we lie on frigid shores of light We knew nothing of this bitter hand of war Something strange in the coals tonight Still we knew nothing of these bitter hands of war
I wish I could believe in you Crashing all the weddings wearing white But we all hate the landlord, baby, it's alright, it's alright
I wish I could believe in who you are You held your cap in the air and you called it a guitar You put your face on the glass and you call it good cinema As if you didn't know that it would sting
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Jonathan, Jonathan, waterfalls are running thin You know here's a holy grail for you to hold and Fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole
I'm not a wild party, I'm just an evening at the show Put the ring back on, and take your husband home and Fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole, oh, oh, oh
Radio, radio, why did you leave Virginia's side It's an alibi, we all know how the music died Fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Jonathan, Jonathan, waterfalls are running thin You know here's a finger made for me, for you to hold and Fire in the hole, fire in the hole, fire in the hole Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Estranged from the captain's light And his bitter hand Oh, oh, oh, oh...
I keep my head uptight I make my plans at night And I don't sleep I don't sleep I don't sleep 'til it's light Something's flowing, someone buried alive There is an awful sound This haunted town And it will not it will not it will not just be quiet Some ghosts sing. Someone get called to the life
Spend boring hours in the office tower In a bus on a bus back home to you and That's fine I'm barely alive It's just a matter of time No one gets out alive And I'm content I'm content I'm content to be quiet It's only six. Someone get called to the life
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
I keep my head on tight I make my plans at night And I don't sleep I don't sleep I don't sleep 'til it's light Pulse flowing, someone buried alive And if that head opens we built a life of work Where we're chain chain chain chain, chained to the life But that's fine, our blood is alive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
Well, into the desert we must go So into the desert we go Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will
And you will grow out of me As naturally as branches from a tree Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will But you know they will swing Swing their swords for show While you turn your flower pedals so slow
You said the desert will eat us alive I said I make the decisions You just drive You just drive
And I saw the windmill raise from the ground And I heard the wind come creeping around Call it an act of easy mercy To tear the structure down Call it whatever you will
Call it whatever you will 'Cause you know they will swing Swing their swords for show While you turn your flower pedals so slow
But I am amazed at how they go I am amazed at how they go I am amazed at how they go
So call it whatever you will
Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will 'Cause you know they will swing Swing their swords for show
I heard all your reasons I heard all your plans I have seen the seasons Clutched up in your hands You're the one eyed feather You're the lion's mane Swear you've heard the weather Calling out your name There'll be no more winters There'll be no more spring and There'll be no more dinner bells Left for you to ring There'll be no more dinner bells Dinner bells to ring Maestro learns the music Musicians learn to dance There'll be no more trumpets There'll be no more flutes No more clapping hands I've heard all your reasons I've heard all your plans I heard of your treasons and I've heard all your pleas And i've made friends with the hang man So there'll be no more winter There'll be no more spring and There'll be no more dinner bells Left for you to ring There'll be no more dinner bells Dinner bells to ring There'll be no more dinner bells Dinner bells to ring There'll be no more dinner bells Dinner bells to ring
I'm not in love with the modern world I'm not in love with the modern world It was a torch driving the savages back to the trees
Modern world has more ways And I don't mention it since it's changed While the people go out and the people come home again
It's gotta last to build up your eyes And a lifetime of red skies And from my bed the sound of your haunted hissing in my bed
Modern world don't ask why Cause modern world will build things high Now they house canyons filled with life
Modern world I'm not pleased to meet you You just bring me down Modern world I'm not pleased to meet you You just bring me down Modern world I'm not pleased to meet you You just bring me down Modern world I'm not pleased to meet you You just bring me down
You said you hate the sound Of the buses on the ground You said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town Said pretend it's whales Keeping their voices down Such were the grounds for divorce I know
On the radio And the bouncing body drone Found eighteen reasons I can't pick up on the phone Said look at the clouds It's a show all on its own Such were the grounds for divorce I know
But the darling is dead We hit her on the head It looked like a wedding cake But the darling is dead We hit her on the head It looked like a newlywed
But I look at the lovers And they way they stand And the way they move and the way move their hands
And I look at their babies And their tiny little hands And the way they get loved and the way they get loved
Oh look at the lovers And they way they stand And the way they move and the way move and the way move their hands
Said you hate the sound Of the buses on the ground Said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town Said pretend it's whales Keeping their voices down Such were the grounds for divorce I know
Looked like a newlywed
On the radio And the bouncing body drone Found eighteen reasons I can't pick up on the phone Said look at the clouds It's a show all on its own Such were the grounds, such were the grounds for divorce I know
At the party we got chained at the wrists Outside there's girls saying It's not gonna be just only a kiss Everyone's disguised just a little bit I had a bad bad time tonight I had a bad bad time tonight Bad things happen in the night Where we built another world Styles surround you here comes the night time Where we built another world
Evening time I made a loud sound and shake some teeth Saw the lights pale across the street It's not gonna be just only a kiss Everyone's disguised just a little bit I had a bad bad time tonight I had a bad bad time tonight Bad things happen in the night Where we built another world
Styles surround you here comes the night time Where we built another world Evening time Where we built another world Hang ghosts from the trees and that's what I saw Where we built another world Hang ghosts from the trees and that's what I saw Where we built another world Where we built another world Where we built another world Here comes the night time
Oh, behold The parapet's fallen out Oh, behold! When it reaches the ground Oh, behold Oh, behold When We can sing To cracks in the crossbeams We can sing Very very quietly We can sing We can sing for each other
Until then don't tear your hair out I won't tear it out if you don't
When I die I'm leaving you my feet When you die You can stand up for me Make a lie and all they can do is put me in your hair I'll be happy there Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh
Oh, behold When my parapet has fallen out Oh, behold Lift it up off the ground Oh, behold then Oh, behold then We can sing then Oh, behold then
When you're on your own Spread out on the map Dead The highway's endless drone Something familiar And how we love the seasons that hide in our stomachs That howl and howl and howl as if Dropped from the great height And I thought the hours that lie in the kitchen
They drag him, drag him, drag into black night Dropped from the great height It was strange Constant blue And the same ghost every night
I go walking Just to find My own breath my own breath through the path I go walking Just to find My own breath my own breath through the path Dropped from the great height It was strange
Constant blue And the same ghost every night It was strange Constant blue And the same ghost every night I go walking Just to find My own breath, my own breath through the path I go walking
We are raised up very high We are raised up very high My own breath
I keep my head uptight I make my plans at night And I don't sleep I don't sleep I don't sleep 'til it's light Something's flowing, someone buried alive There is an awful sound This haunted town And it will not it will not it will not just be quiet Some ghosts sing. Someone get called to the life
Spend boring hours in the office tower In a bus on a bus back home to you and That's fine I'm barely alive It's just a matter of time No one gets out alive And I'm content I'm content I'm content to be quiet It's only six. Someone get called to the life
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
I keep my head on tight I make my plans at night And I don't sleep I don't sleep I don't sleep 'til it's light Pulse flowing, someone buried alive And if that head opens we built a life of work Where we're chain chain chain chain, chained to the life But that's fine, our blood is alive
You know our hearts beat time out very slowly You know our hearts beat time They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
I got a hand So I got a fist So I got a plan It's the best that I can do Now we say, it's in God's hands But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he? I ain't quite the beauty Who holds up two guns and shoots at the pretty, pretty view And, God, I keep thinking things - hunters and kings To block out the view I gotta get a new bell to ring A new song to sing A steady hand to ring A readiness of things A new plan to bring to the people People I can trick 'em into thinking anything Ya-ho And you rust it just right in the light, it's gold, it's golden Ya-ho I got watering holes in my hands I'm a digger of holes in the land of holes Ya-ho It's the easiest way Ya-oh It's the easiest way Ya-ho It's the easiest way Ya-ho It's the easiest way Hey So I go
La la la la la la La la la la la la La la la la la la I got water and I got holes, oh La la la la la la Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts, oh La la la la la la I got water and I got holes, oh La la la la la la The sons and daughters of hungry ghosts, oh, go, go La la la la la la I got water and I got holes, oh La la la la la la Sons and daughters of hungry ghosts, oh, go, go I got a hand (La la la la la la) So I got a fist So I got a plan, it's the best I can do Say, is it in God's hands? (La la la la la la) But God doesn't always have the best goddamn plans, does he? Say, la la la la la la I can't believe in the guns, I can't believe in the view I sing, say, say (La la la la la la) I can't believe in those hunters and kings Ya-oh Say, la la la la la la I got a new plan to bring I got a new song to sing, it goes La la la la la la I got a new plan to bring and you know Ya-ho It's the easiest way (La la la la la la) Ya-ho It's the easiest way (La la la la la la) Ya-ho It's the easiest way (La la la la la la) Ya-ho It's the easiest way (La la la la la la) Hey So I go
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine Give me your eyes, I need sunshine Your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost
We've both been very brave Walk around with both legs Fight the scary day We both pulled the tricks out of our sleeves, but I'll believe in anything and you'll believe in anything Said I'll believe in anything and you'll believe in anything
If I could get the fire out from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd take you where nobody knows you and Nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you and Nobody gives a damn
And I could take another hit for you And I could take away your trips from you And I could take away the salt from your eyes Take away what's been assaulting you And I could give you my apologies By handing over all the olive trees And I could take away your shaky knees And I could give you all the olive trees And look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here
So give me your eyes, I need sunshine Give me your eyes, I need sunshine Your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost We've both been very brave Walk around with both legs Fight the scary day We both pulled the tricks right out of our sleeves But I'll believe in anything and you'll believe in anything
If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd take you where nobody knows you and Nobody gives a damn I said nobody knows you And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you And nobody gives a damn either way About your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost Because nobody knows you And nobody gives a damn either way You know I'll believe in anything and you'll believe in anything Because nobody knows you And nobody gives a damn either way
