antique glow    lyrics

dinosaur lies on its side in the light of the perpetual night well so long ago what did he know, and you'll fly away in the night down below see your city lights and you'll know that you can't really go, so strike a  match bring up a flame chant the word or your favorite name until your blue in the face and there's no one to blame.

light your crystal ball and set it adrift over the moor, watch the fly on the wall put it in your pocket drop it in your dessert and eat free forever more, tape up all the signs you think the might change all of the times but they'll end up as yellow rusty nails, stuck to the poles that are upholding lines that changed with the times, like mountain sides you like water slides that drop you right into atlantis, keep the sunshine behind your back don't waste your light on me today because i'm down yes i'm down a long long way.

you're the jewel of the evening a beacon amidst a planetary hum, forsake the ocean floor slip a key into my front door make your residence upon my ceiling, places and people using shortwave for church steeple, so that high upon the hill all prescriptions there get filled, masterworks were made and spit into the great lakes battle lines were drawn but the feeling lingered on (and on), but the one thing there was left that was worth  stealing, jewel of the evening.

grab your scuba and your swimming gear, what you say we get out of here, it's an idea whose time has come, flippers and manatee they will be everyday vocabulary if you'd come on down a league or two with me, cause underwater's where the action is, upstairs we're really on the skids and in the blue light of the H20 you're looking so fine oh oh, here's something if you're lonely you'll fathom, the mermaids are sexy and if you want you can have them if you'd only come down below for a while, so take a dip take a swimming trip, take a dip take a swimming trip, take a dip take a swimming trip and the starfish reflected in your eyes, cause underwater's where the action is, upstairs we've really hit the skids and in the blue light of the H2O you're looking so fine, you're looking so fine oh you know that underwater's where the action is, upstairs we're really on the skids, they got the car alarms that wake you all night, they people outside who are ready to fight so, underwater where the action is, that's where i'll be for the next 100 years, underwater where the action is uh huh, i'll be out swimming with the fish.

1000 rainy days 1000 rainy nights they could not do no justice to the tears i cried, 1000 rainy days 1000 rainy nights they could not do no justice to the tears i cried, girl you shot  my poor heart down, didn't even blush you had no time no interest mmm hmm but you said this much, you'll never be my baby, never be my love, never never never be the one i'm thinking of, girl all of the stories and all of the songs, all those tales of longing girl we could have proved wrong, 1000 sunless days 1000 sunless nights they could not hold a candle to the darkness inside, 1000 sunless days 1000 sunless nights, they could not hold a candle to the darkness inside, the darkness inside, 1000 rainy days 1000 rainy nights they could not hold a candle to the darkness inside, 1000 rainy days 1000 rainy nights they could not do no justice to the tears i cried, the tears i cried, the tears i cried.

the long ash the holy soil, my stained fingers shoot aluminum foil, are you electric are you electric are you plugged in, mele kalikimaka was a friend of mine so when i went to the islands i got the red carpet treatment, i was electric i was electric i was plugged in, i wonder what (or who) is behind those champagne eyes, i bet you're one of those kind of people who keeps their sorrows disguised are you electric, are you plugged in.

please visit soon our little balloon, way up high above the ground, please visit soon unless our little balloon may explode with no sound, please visit soon the clouds in the sky our friends to our left and our right, please visit soon our little balloon we cannot stay high all the time, please visit soon  our little balloon high above the scottish highlands, please visit soon our little balloon a basket with all of our friends, please visit soon we're up in the sky the clouds to our left and our right, please visit soon our little balloon sailing away in the night.

there outside my windowpane i see a river of rain that falls off dawn's rosy fingers, yeah i think i know why everyone must die on their way to loving, there outside my windowpane i hear a mother and a plane and the mommy is asking hey do you have change for ten i want to go down again i want to live in atlantis, to empty my hands of their obligation, empty my head of its indignation, why should i fear every evening, empty my mouth of its wicked tongue, frigid girl asked the favorite son when did you stop going out to parties, when did you start to listen so darkly, generationally speaking you're one of ours.

on a fake day hey the moon's up first and it wants to play, all its sleepytime tricks on us the sun has missed the bus, and you'll wake up cold and grey, you'll be waiting for a way to say that this day never happened never came, and you know the rhyme is coming next it's just somewhere buried in the text of a bus ride or a long drive, away.

mean marianne she won't take, take my hand she's a river but she don't bend for no place she's never been, mean marianne,  she don't break any bread she always made her bed so that she's so well well well well represented, and tonight could be the night, the night to end all nights, mean marianne, mean mean mean marianne she won't take, take my hand, ahhh you're mean marianne, mean mean mean marianne, and tonight could be the night, the night to end all nights, marianne, ahhh.

waist high on mt. fuji and lets all make a movie of the things i've seen, while we're aligned like planets but we're sinking in the granite of a memory, dreams float above her hide in pictures of her mother once alive now late, delirious a gambler we are all channel unscramblers it's a soft escape, on their backs aways on the backs of waves on the backs of waves its a soft escape, waist high on mt. fuji and lets all make a movie of a thing i've seen, we're aligned like planets and we're sinking in the granite of a memory, my dreams float above her hide in pictures of her mother once alive now late, delirious a gambler we are all channel unscramblers it's a soft escape, just send a sculptor to the waste send a sculptor to the waste send a sculptor to the place send a sculptor to the waste, waist high on mt. fuji, we're waist high on mt fuji, waist high on mt. fuji, we're waist high on mt. fuji, waste high on mt. fuji, we're waist high on mt fuji.

mother of pearl meet the duke of earl and row row your boat to the end of the line, wherever you go to dear i'm sure you'll be fine, me i prefer waiting here on my own silver lining, if your happiness has been milling about then lets go and detonate all the mountains of doubt, and take down all the picture frames you strung up and they strung you out, mother of pearl it's not too hard to figure out, mother of pearl, meet the duke of earl and row row your boat to the end of the line, wherever you go to dear i'm sure you'll be fine, me i will be waiting here on my own silver line.