The Bends

Leave when the snow melts
 On the first clear night
 River runs deep
 Walk against it
 Walk 'til the Southern Cross peaks on the west edge
 Of the brine lake at the dredged end
 Ruts in the mud, then gravel, then a paved one
 Left at the Amoco, right at the station
 First train, wait
 Take the second headed east
 Window seat, pretty girl with the gold teeth
 Has a hotel key with your name on it
 Stay on it 'til the train hits the border in the morning
 Duck the conductor, leave through the back door
 Wait for my sign on the platform
 Smoke on the skyline
 Welcome to Delphi
 They'll come with questions
 Answer what you can
 Everybody knows the new oracle's at hand
 Oh, there probably ain't another way
 And I watch so amazed
 And float through everyday
 Hoping I don't float away
 That I don't float away
 Cold world, no blanket
 Uh, dark nights, no Batman, what up?
 I keep a nail in the hand and a hammer on the nightstand
 Locked in, no B plan
 Keep the mouth shut, let 'em stay lost
 Radio up, radio off
 Either no guts or it's so what
 Rather read up than trust my neck to the blood suck
 Full moon, hand fulla silver bullets
 High noon all day with these assholes
 How soon is too soon to pull it when I doubt they count they paces at all?
 So fly but took a bullet in the wax wing
 So high but didn't get the chance to melt
 So tight how when he came down didn't even look scared
 Just eased on back into the veldt
 Oh, there probably ain't another way
 And I watch so amazed
 And float through everyday
 Hoping I don't float away
 That I don't float away
 The woods are deep
 Fuckin' A, them woods are deep
 I was drinking that cheap shit
 To fall asleep
 And really solely to hold my feet
 Because these days I've been taking that heavy so lightly
 That I might float away completely
 In my psyche
 I'm the natural man in a Black Friday stampede
 LED murder spree for cheap
 And the video screams, Worldstar War Z
 I'm feeling dirty but feeling so good I just smile at the thieves
 Fold up a note in the breeze
 'Cause I got a few miles to go before I concede
 Oh, there probably ain't another way
 And I watch so amazed
 And float through everyday
 Hoping I don't float away
 That I don't float away
 You got it wrong, but you got it made
 A lot of weight, but you gotta wait for a lot of aid though
 And I'm not a maid or amazed by the raise in your payroll
 Ergo silence the offers
 High-wire walkers, child actors
 Ain't vying for your father figure fodder
 Otter out, we outta time, you outta line you lil' Focker
 Taut line from the dock to the Oscars
 And I'm reading like a Rorschach
 Hiding lines in the pantomime, allegory in a smirk
 Where my eyes won't take you my moves do that work, a nonverbal creep
 Where the OG's weep
 Slide, slip, test glide
 Connect like catching wreck like R-E-S-P-I-R-ation from the Westside
 Now it's strong in the Midwest in my own nation
 Got a fam and we crewed up in sub-clans, no subjugation
 With the wings and the chops
 Put the beans in the pot
 Like the seeds to the crop
 Doomtree, No Kings, cut the top
 Head 'em off at the neck, better off dead, dead 'em all
 Better them than you, right?
 Forever type shit
 Oh, there probably ain't another way
 And I watch so amazed
 And float through everyday
 Hoping I don't float away
 That I don't float away
 Oh, there probably ain't another way
 And I watch so amazed
 And float through everyday
 Hoping I don't float away
 That I don't float away