Bright Red

You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down freefall to the bottom like when you're drowning or falling asleep you get turned around and when you think you're swimming to the surface you're
Ing straight down. down to the bottom. all the way to the bottom. secret codes and cryptograms i'm lost in your words i'm swimming. we're going down to the bottom all the way to the bottom raptu
The deep. i got your letter. i couldn't read it. it was a cryptogram. did it sasay take me with you or take me as i am? we're going down to the bottom all the way to the bottom. we get turned a
. there is another world spinning inside of this one. i remember where i came from there were tropical breezes and a wide open sea i remember my childhood i remember being free. we're going down
He bottom all the way to the bottom we get turned around there is another world inside of this one. rapture of the deep. we're going down to the bottom there is another world spinning inside of
One.

You knwo that little clock, the one on your vcr the one that's always blinking twelve noon because you never figured out how to get in there and change it? so it's always the same time just the
T came from the factory. good morning. good night. same time tomorrow. we're in record. so here are the questions: is time long or is it wide? and the answers? sometimes the answers just come in
Mail. and one day you get that letter you've been waiting for forever. and everything it says is true. and then in the last line it says: burn this. we're in record. and what i really want to kn
: are things getting better or are they getting worse? can we start all over again? stop. pause. we're in record. good morning. good night. now i in you without a body move. and in our hearts we
Standby. good morning. good night.

It was one of those black cat nights the moon had gone out and the air was thin it was the kind of night that the cat would drag in. i'll never forget it, we had a fight. then you turned around
D on the light. you left our bed. then you moved downstairs to live with her instead. yeah just one floor and a shout away, i guess i should have moved but i decided to stay. did i drink some po
That i don't remember now? and every night i open all the windows i let a cold dark wind blow through. i play loud organ music and i talk to myself and dream of you. uh oh! i hear voices coming
Rough the pipes through all the springs in my bed and up through the lights the volume goes up then it drops back down i can hear the two of you playing records moving furniture and fooling arou
Id i drink some poison that i don't remember now? is there blood on my hands/ no, my hands are clean. did i do something in another lifetime that was really really mean? yeah, i'm hearing voices
I losing my mind? think i'm g
Oing craz, i gotta get out. i run into the street and i start to shout get ou of my way! get out! get out! did i drink some poison that i don't remember now? is there blood on my hands? did i do
Thing in another lifetime that was really really mean? a small bullet, a piece of glass and your heart just grows around it.

Daddy daddy, it was just like you said now that the living outnumber the dead. where i come from it's a long thin thread across an ocean. down a river of red. now that the living outnumber the d
Speak my language. hello. hello. here come the quick. there go the dead. here they come. bright red. speak my language.

Last night i dreamed i died and that my life had been rearranged into some kind of theme park. and all my friends were walking up and down the boardwalk. and my dead grandmother was selling cott
Ndy out of a little shack. and there was this big ferris wheel about a half mile out in the ocean, half in and half out of the water. and all my old boyfriends were on it. with their new girlfri
And the boys were waving and shouting and the girls were saying eeek. then they disappeared under the surface of the water and when they came up again they were laughing and gasping for breath.
His dream i'm on a tightrope and i'm tipping back and forth trying to keep my balance. and below me are all my relatives and if i fall i'll crush them. this long thin line. this song line. this
. the only thing that binds me to the turning world below and to all the people and noise and sounds and shouts. this tightrope made of sound this long thin line made of my own blood. remember m
All i ask and if remembered b
E a task forget me. remember me is all i ask and if remembered be a task this long thin line. this long thin ine. this long thin line. this tightrope. remember me is all i ask and if remembered
Task forget me. this long thin line. this long thin ine. this long thin line. this tightrope made of sound.

There is a hot wind blowing it moves across teh oceand and into every port. a plague. a black plague. there's danger everywhere and you've been sailing. and you're alone on an island now tuning
Id you think this was the way your world would end? hombres. sailors. comrades. there is no pure land now no safe plave and we stand here by the pier watching you drown. love among the sailors.
Among the sailors. there is a hot wind blowing plague drifts across the oceans. and if this is the work of an angry god i want to look into his angry face. there is no pure land now. no safe pla
Ome with us to the mountains. hombres. sailors. comrades.

I live on the highway near the puppet motel i log in every day i know the neighborhood well. no about the residents of the puppet motel they're more than a little spooky and most of them are mea
Ey're runnin' the numbers they're playin' cops and robbers down in the dungeons inside their machines. cause they don't know what's really real now they're havin' fourth dimentional dreams their
S are out on bail now and real is only what it seems. and all the puppets in this digital jail they're runnin' around in a frenzy in search of the holy grail. they're havin' virtual sex. they're
N' virtual food. no wonder these puppets are always in a lousy mood. so if you think we live in a modern world where everything is clean and swell take a walk on the b side of town down by the p
Motel take a whiff. burning plastic. i drink a cup of coffee i try to revive my mind's a blank i'm barely alive my nerves are shot i feel like hell guess it's time to check in at the puppet mot
Oot up. good afternoon. pause
. oooo. i really llike the way you talk. pardon me. shut down.