Hologram Of Baal

Empty birdcage in her room
Curtains pulled against the moon
Follow her down to louisiana
Hotel room bedside manner
God i've got to get back soon
She wriggles like a fish in a net
Details you can never forget
One thing or another
Never any (bother?) considering the (regret?)
//or//
Never anybody causing me no regret ?

That's my story
Cost a fortune
Louisiana

Black rain falling in the night
Strangers meet in the lamp light
Once in her life louisiana
Standing alone out on the veranda
Christ i must have been a sight
She struggles like a leaf in the wind
Waiting for the music to begin
One thing or another
Always (miss the other lover ?)
Look what a state i'm in

That's my story
Nothing special
Louisiana

Billy moved to abilene
Lou is searching for morphine
Next stop is louisiana
No-one there with a welcome banner
I don't suppose that they're too keen
She juggled her gentlemen friends
And suddenly the war ends
Coming home finding other men in hiding
Biding her lonely weekends

What a story
Cast of thousands
Louisiana

Empty birdcage in her room
Shadows shrunk against the moon
Follow her down to louisiana
Hotel room bedside manner
God i've got to get back soon
God i've got to get back soon

Snow came up friday, i gotta go
Spending winter up in buffalo
Someone i met there is calling me so
Got to escape the blues man, don't you know

Days of sinking summer packed up and gone
Nothing helps me, there's nothing wrong
It was so pleasant, incandescent, it's over now
We should get going

Lady i know there, name of christina
Six lonely lifetimes since i've seen her
She takes you places your heart cannot go
During the winter up in buffalo

Days by her fire, dazed in the glow
Winter surrounds us up in buffalo

Days of drowsy pleasure in the afternoon dark
We drift together, we drift apart
She's got the wherewithal, she's got the knowledge
It's wonderful
I should be going

Out there the snow queen is kidnapping boys
Her block-of-ice heart tunes out the noise
And soft in the bedroom her eyes indigo
Sleeping in the winter in buffalo

Down in buffalo

He had a room in the best part of town
He got a chocolate on his eiderdown
Staring out over roofs at the cross
Suppose he must have felt somewhat at loss

This is it, oh
This is it
This is it, oh baby
This is it

You couldn't say he was feeling very vibed
What had the quack in london prescribed
You couldn't really say he seemed to care
Sometimes he acted like he wasn't anywhere

This is it, oh baby
This is it
This it it, oh
This is it

(????????) start to crash
Even though you've got a fistful of cash
Watching the future it bursts on through
I was one of those who used to be with (envy ?) you

I knew a wise man didn't know a thing
I knew a happy man who made me feel sad
You never know what the other guy is thinking
Too bad

Sometimes you come upon a fork in the road
What was waiting there he never could have known
Split-second difference, one tiny percent
Yeah, he came and he went

This is it, oh baby
This is it
This is it, oh
This is it

I heard about maria, she hated the rat race
And she escaped to a beautiful place
Birds of neo-paradise groove in the trees
The name of her town is tranquility

Protected by her mantra
Following the formula
In the sun thy will be done

Chasing her rainbows
Talking with the animals
Who say "you see, it's tranquility"

Under shifting dimensions horizon returns
Smoke in the distance as babylon burns
Summer in the river scattering the net
Long to remember that hasn't happened yet

Protected by her mantra
Following the orchestra
In the sun thy will be done

Chasing her rainbows
Talking with the animals
Who say "you see, it's tranquility"

Protected by her mantra
Following the nebula
In the sun thy will be done

Chasing her rainbows
Talking with the animals
Who say "you see, it's tranquility"

Boys i've had enough
There's no more smooth just rough
Don't go looking for me
Leave me
In tranquility

After the demise of our beloved leader
Everybody knew that something had to give
Cassandra she told me
But no-one would believe her
I wish i had helped her more than i did
We tried to overcome the threat of the monster
We tried to kneel down and call up the beast
Maria she told me
That her kid had just appeared one day
I just can't tell who i adore the least

The rivers run astray
Ricochet
Night feels just like day
Ricochet
And everybody just walk away

In one side of my mind resides a controller
In one side of my mind revolves a/the relief
And one pain in my brain remains unchanged
I say you cannot explain the grief
Once in a while when the wind has slowed down
Me and the girls visit struggle town
There's a shop down there
Selling skulls (spells/stones) and powder
But/we don't ask any questions about her/it

You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using
What are you using that's stronger than the love
Sometimes i'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing
Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove
Listen to the wind tearing at the windows
Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud
Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs
Men/man of sorrows lost into the crowd

The rivers run astray
Ricochet
Night feels just like day
Ricochet
Everybody walk away

So if the ladies ask you over to play
Just beware of the ricochet