Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer ground.
He fled the town.
He went down south
And crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there
Over his shoulder.
One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him.
Sweat oozed from it's shiny skin.
Is everybody in?
Is everybody in?
Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin
Wake up!
You can't remember where it was.
Had this dream stopped?
The snake was pale gold
Glazed and shrunked.
We were afraid to touch it.
The sheets were hot dead prisons.
And she was beside me, old,
She's, no; young.
Her dark red hair.
The white soft skin
Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom,
Look!
I can't live through each slow century of her moving.
I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain...
~~~
Once I had a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called "go insane"
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world, forget the people
And we'll erect a different steeple
This little game is fun to do.
Just close your eyes, no way to lose.
And I'm right there, I'm going too.
Release control, we're breaking through.
~~~
Way back deep into the brain
Way past the realm of pain
Back where there's never any rain.
And the rain falls gently over the town.
And over the heads of all of us
And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hill around,
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights.
Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
Beast car locked in against morning.
All now sleeping
Rugs silent,mirrors vacant,
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets.
And daughters smug, with semen
Eyes in their nipples
Wait!
There's been a slaughter here.
(Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the run
And you're the one I want to come)
~~~
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do
but, run, run, run
Let's run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing wild breeze
C'mon, baby, run with me,
Let's run
Run with me, run with me, run with me
Let's run
The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside
Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
C'mon along, we're not going very far
To the east to meet the Czar.
Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The minister's daughter's in love with a snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We're almost home.
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you soon...soon...soon!
~~~
We came down the rivers and highways
We came down from the forests and the falls
We came down from Carson, and Springfield
We came down from Phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you the names of the kingdom
I can tell you the things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade
~~~
I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in it's tracks
I made the blue cars go away
For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile,
Playing strange games
With the girls of the islands.
Now I have come again
to the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O children of the night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Now, Night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready.
~~~
