Coat Check Dream Song

Shrill as a choir of children
 Urgent like the first day of may
 False and inflatable feeling
 Tugs at my senses, big as the macy's Parade
 One brick on top of another
 Such is the measure of man
 Planets are inset like diamonds
 On a gravity halo, eternity's wedding band
 I slept with that dealer all summer
 The ecstasy is still in my spine
 Coat check I couldn't remember
 Walked into the winter, came out on the other side
 And in the south the sun is shining
 Back in the east the lights went out
 Stuck on a ladder to heaven
 On trial way back in the hague
 Lullaby sounds from the engine
 In my styrofoam coffin, asleep on the interstate
 Black globes, old symbols of freedom
 A murderer still on the lam
 Cities encircled in iron
 On a great silver beltway, democracy's shackled hands
 Séance that brought us together
 Objects we move with our minds
 Coat check and I lost the number
 Short sleeves in the winter, fell back through the other side
 Out in the west the cars are crashing
 Up in the north the ice gave out (gave out, gave out, gave out, gave out)