Think I'm stranded but I don't know whereI got this diamond I don't know how to shineIn the sun where the dark winds wailAnd these children leave their rulers behind As we cross ten leagues from a rubiconThe matchsticks for my bonesIf we can learn how to freeze ourselves aliveWe can learn to leave these burdens to burn Cast out these creatures of woeWho shatter themselvesFighting the fire with your bare hands Now my journey takes me further southI want to hear what the blind men singWith their fossils and their gypsy bonesI'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone And how can I make new againWhat rusts every time it rainsAnd the rain it comes and floods our lungsWe're just orphans in a tidal wave's wake If I wake up and see my maker comingWith all of his crimson and his iron desireWe'll drag the streets with the baggage of longingTo be loved or destroyed from a voidTo a grain of sand in your hand

If I could to hold hold out for nowWith these ice caps melting downWith the transistor soundAnd my Chevrolet terraplaneGoing around around around Come on little gamma rayStanding in a hurricaneYour brains are boredLike a refugee from a house that's burningAnd the heat wave's calling your name She's got on a cactus crownWith a dot dot dot on her browAnd she speaks inside a cloudWith her countenance turning around Hit me like a gamma rayStanding in a hurricaneAnd I'm pulling out thornsSmokestack lightning out my windowI want to know what I've lost today Come on little gamma rayStanding in a hurricaneAnd your body's boredLike a refugee from a house that's burningAnd the backwater's calling your name

I can't believe what we've seen outsideYou and me watching the jets go byOh, Oooh, OhOh, Oooh, Oh Drown by sea, so many people've already drownedYou and me watching a sea full of peopleTry not to drown So many people, so many peopleWhere do they go?You and me watching a skyFull of chemtrailsThat's where we belong All I can take from these skies is hopeBut all I can see in this light are boatsSinkingOh, Oooh, OhOh, Oooh, Oh Down by the sea swallowed by evilThey've already drowned You and me watching a sea of peopleAlready drowned So many people, so many peopleWhere do they go?You and me hit by a test of white evil rainWatching the jet planes go by You and me watchingYou and me watchingThe chemtrails is where we belongThat's where we'll be when we die in the slipstreamWe'll climb in a hole in the sky

I feel uptight when I walk in the cityI feel so cold when I'm at homeFeels like everything's starting to hit meI lost my bearings ten minutes ago Modern guilt - I'm stranded with nothingModern guilt - I'm under lock-and-keyMisapprehension is turning into conventionDon't know what I've done but I feel ashamed Standing outside the glass on the sidewalkThese people talk about impossible thingsAnd I'm falling out of the conversationLike a pawn piece in a human shield Modern guilt is all in our handsModern guilt won't get me to bedSay what you will - smoke your last cigaretteDon't know what I've done but I feel afraid

There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing fromJust to get on level groundShake your seasick legs aroundEveryone in a logo townSigns of life are stark and flickering I need a bed to lay my body downDead weight to carry me downSome static is lulling me to sleep Hang your clothes on a chain link fenceIn a junkyard say amenYour mouth is full of wordless hymnsAnd run-on sentences And we're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothingAnd we're youthless and pretending in the bearhands holding nothing There's a million horse dragging down a monoliththese trademarks so bereavedTied my leg to a barricadewith a plastic handgrenadeThey tried to turn emotion into noise I need a teleprompter for my lifeNeed a pipeline to the nightMy body can't get no relief And this life it goes by fastTo treading water in the pastWhile you try to reanimate something that you don't understand And we're helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothingAnd he's youthless and forgetting in the bare hymns tied to nothing And he's helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothingAnd he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands tied to nothing

Some days we get a thrill in our brainsSome days it turns into malaiseYou see our face in the veneerReflected on the surface of fearBecause you know that we're better than thatBut some days we're worse than you can imagineAnd how am I supposed to live with that?With all these train wrecks coming at random Hey - what are you gonna do?When those walls are falling down - falling down on youHey - what are you gonna do?When those walls are falling down - falling down on you You got warheads stacked in the kitchenYou treat distraction like it's a religionWith a rattlesnake step in your rhythmWe do the best with the souls we've been givenBecause you know we're nothing special to themWe're going some place they've already beenTrying to make sense of what they call wisdomAnd this riff-raff ain't laughing with them Hey - what are you gonna do?When those walls are falling down - falling down on youHey - what are you gonna do?When those walls are falling down - falling down on you You're wearing all the years on your faceTurn a tombstone into your own placeAnd your heart only beats in a murmurBut your words ring out just like murder

Make a perfect replica of your lifeCut the paper with exacto knifeTape it up, tape it up against the howling windI'm so tired - don't know where to begin It's so unrealIt's all I needThis replica I was the last to see me down on my kneesThese antibodies learn to be the diseaseAnd I learn to be what fights against meWe'll make a replica - a place we can sleepAnd we could live in a hollow treeGrow up old and bury the seaAnd when this replica begins to look cheapI'll throw it out but now it's home to me It's so unrealIt's all I needThis replica Build it up, build it upThis replicaNow we build it upBuild it up, build it upBuild it up, build it up

Beat my bones against the wall Staring down an empty hall Deep down in a hollow log Coming home like a letter bomb Cold was the storm That covered the night Call a doctor, call a ghost Put a fire into your bones Sic a dog on all you know Cut it loose before you go Cold was the storm That covered the night What makes the soul, the soul of a man? Beat my bones against the wall Put a bank note on your bond Gris Gris and a goldenrod Down deep in a hollow log Cold was the storm That buried the night What makes the soul, the soul of a man?

In a cast iron cage you couldn't help but stare like a creatureWith the laws of a brothel and the fireproof bones of a preacherAnd your lingo coined from the sacrament of a casinoOn a government loan with a guillotine in your libido Who's gonna answerProfanity prayersWho's gonna answerThese profanity prayers Well you know how it looks when you pull all your books from the tableAnd you stare into space trying to discern what to say nowAnd you wait at the light and watch for a sign that you're breathing'Cause you can't just live on air and float to the ceiling Who's gonna answerProfanity prayersWho's gonna answerProfanity prayers Who's gonna answerProfanity prayersWho's gonna answerProfanity prayers

And I've been walkin' on these streets so longI don't know where they're gonna lead anymoreBut I think I must have seen a ghostI don't know if it's my illusions that keep me alive I don't know what I've seenWas it all an illusion?All a mirage gone bad? oh I'm tired of evilAnd all that it feedsBut I don't know And I've been driftin' on this wave so longI don't know if it's already crashed on the shoreAnd I've been ridin' on this train so longI can't tell if it's you or me who's drivin' us into the ground I don't know if I'm saneBut there's a ghost in my heartWho's tryin' to see in the dark, oh I'm tired of peopleWho only wanna be pleasedBut I still wanna please you And I heard of that Japanese girlWho jumped into the volcanoWas she tryin' to make it backBack into the womb of the world? oh And I've been drinkin' all these tears so longAll I've got left is the taste of salt in my mouth I don't know where I've beenbut I know where I'm goin'To that volcano, woah I don't wanna fall in thoughJust wanna warm my boneson the fire a while