Side 1

Empire Express

Wow, there’s a lot of running away stories!
Ha, call this guy
I’m at the station,
Gonna need some help…


Red Central

Now for a sign…
I had no money.
Enough money to buy a ticket to go.
Burns inside my chest
there’s a dark sun that glows
I wanted to just get away,
Hahaha
I had, ha! intentions to just…
No oxygen
Except in my, my blood
I was gonna do this.


There is a dark sun
That writes sad stories on the insides of my veins.
Anyway I bought this ticket
And I must’ve spent everything I had on this ticket.
…escape the heat in summer right now
There is a dark sun that glows

Grounds my weight,
Good afternoon passengers
Heavy.
Herr Hauptmann
…. the bush and said,”Moses, Moses”
will be the 3:04 train,
Stopping all stations.


Burning Bush Blues

a dark sun
That’s disturbing
no oxygen except
Eventually took me in to the local
‘Loony bin’.
Sometimes break
woohoo
on the insides of my veins
your worst nightmare

jawohl, Herr Hauptmann
lights on the mountainside
Sometimes break and tear away.
bush that burns
the bush does not burn

Like my legs
that are running
to the insides of your arms,
the only ones that know
Herr Hauptmann
How to hold me.




Waiting Room

When we said goodbye,
You didn’t leave any clue.
At one point
It is ok
I must’ve been pretty
sort of boisterous,
talking a lot.
scared it won’t breathe again
Its ok to be
gotta go down
happy
As soon as I got there
gotta go down deep
I dunno what I’m gonna do now.
I don’t have a plan,
and I’ve got no money.

ba bah ba da dah


The Painted Desert

and eventually got to this lake,
There’s this band there:
you can pick the eyes out of something
Ha haha haha Ha ha
the cheque’s in the mail
I think she did.. but I can’t..
Did I know where I was?
the back paddock
She had no teeth.
Oh, yeah, I’m pretty sure she had no teeth,
But she actually could talk.

So whenever she saw me,
She would say things like:
“Why do your eyes stick out like that?”
ha ha ha! Ha!
“Why, why are your eyes so big?”
Ha!
She tried to actually attack me,
I’m trying to remember.
Aah..
I sort of think she did
But I can’t remember actually.

to you
now
arriving home to you
Trying not to..


Day Seventeen

..So I said,
I probably should call my family
and tell them where I am, what’s going on.

One of the guys,
shepherds with flocks and..
Disturbed and bothered by
the mountain side
the volume that I was making,
the bush that burns
He just turns to me and he says:
the bush does not burn
What is he talking about?
So shocked..


The next thing I knew I was looking up
And trying to find this…
Tropical Storm Lydia..
Cops
Coming towards me
And I remember they gave me a blanket
Cover yourself up