DIVINER High, after the summer Find all the wells are drunk dry Miles and miles of starburn Branded on the hide of the night Diviner Low, before the winter Loser, these vessels are full Drop between drop of moonshine Slipping on the surface of our day Diviner (Water underground) Diviner (Rock ceiling fossil pool) Diviner (Blind transparent fish) Diviner (Seek the liquid dark) HERMAPHRODITE Goddess say there's no use in calling The past is over and the dark are falling Hold me closer than you did today See all misunderstandings evaporate away If you knew how I tried so deep inside There's just one and I give us to you If you think that's no good then you should disappear fast What else can you do ? There's a valley in the back of her mind Where all of the elements are treating her kind She lay right back on her forgiving earth It was something quite unusual, she was giving birth They stole a cradle from the open door The crowd becoming uglier they were calling out for more Oh goddess don't let them see how I am I hope that Jehova got my telegram ETHEREAL MESSAGE Cold man is rich in luxurious heat White empty car at the end of the street Five thousand angels hang from their strings Drinking their bourbons and grooming their wings And they all rose up and flew This ethereal message down here to you A face at the window of the house where you live Tells me it's empty, not who you've been with Five thousand soldiers captured the town Bringing their dead back from the ground And every one of them knew This ethereal message was meant for you Down, down, feathers in the air Down, down, down everywhere Blessed generations range through the flames And by the smoke forgetting the names Five thousand mornings melt into days Wearing the blues and singing the greys And their threats never come true This ethereal message is waiting for you MERCURY TOWERS Well it's been a long day I can't wait to slip out of my skin And it's been a long way I can't decide what state I'll be in I live in the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Out of the pink sky Comes a Spanish radio show Strange not to feel high Watch the sleeping city below I watch from my tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Beam from the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Well there's a factory Down at the end of, like Merlin street And they pay a good price Guaranteed and always discreet When I feel bigger than life I hold a mirror up to my breath But it's been a long day I can't wait to slip out of my skin Skin in the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Come to the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower High in the tower It's only an hour away from here I live in the tower Curled in the tower... Sleep in the tower... OUT OF THE PINK SKY Hex (repeat in amongst all the other strange noises) FIRE ISLAND First you offer fire Pure, deluxe Fire island You improved deal Real fine Fire island Foreign sea premium far Fire fire fire island Fire island (repeat) IN THE NET Barracuda metal slips through our conversation Shifting from insomnia to chaste acceleration Peeling out the pages from a book of random lullabies Sleeping off the chrysalis waking like a butterfly In the net In you get When you're standing in the light You can't see the dark alright You forget in the net In you get You got your ocelot that's eating up your birds All the empty cages empty just two thirds I found that magic lamp and now I got my wish But it's just another pond and I'm just a bigger fish SILVERMINE Silvermine, I'm falling into this Silvermine and no way through Silvermine I can't relinquish this Silvermine neither can you I led him down to it Can't get 'round to it I led him down to it too I let him loose in it Can't get used to it I let him loose in it too Silvermine I'm slipping into this Silvermine and no way through Silvermine I can't remember this Silvermine neither can you ELIZABETH GREEN Elizabeth makes abstract mistakes In Chinatown when everything breaks Rain in the windows Singapore eyes Under the ladder and everything twice Elizabeth Green burned her machine Entered the ashes under column fifteen The days and the nights are gallantly looped She falls from a world where dead kings are duped Elizabeth wakes freezing mind lakes Can't lift a hand for the dust that it makes The music goes on but the ship has gone down Down to the bed with a shining glass sound Elizabeth Green deep and marine Chains planes and pearls and her number thirteen Mile after mile burn after burn return Return AN ARRANGEMENT Oh it's just an arrangement No I don't care if they see You think you're sick of being yourself What you crave is somebody else Make an arrangement with me
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