The Church — Block

I was down in the city on a miracle street I flailed like a swimmer through the summer heat I was waiting for a friend that I needed to meet And I's hoping she was bringing with her something sweet And I's hoping for an open little opening And I suffer for a groovy little happening But it's all going wrong just like I sing in that song The song that I wrote about you that they put on TV The TV that I gave you cuz you wanted to see But all they saw were spaces where the people used to be A hundred bastard voids with their pull on me In the valley of death you'll be breathless and free You'll be dancing like a fool by the swollen sea You'll be twitching like a drunk in a pharmacy You'll be swatting at the flies in your pavilion Where the millionaire just blew a gazillion The finger nails are all hot vermilion And the traffic grinds down to a stand-still-ion And the mynah birds are pecking at the carrion And you read it already in Hyperion And you read about my trial in the Clarion A sack full of ashes I've been carry'n When the lights turn green I dissolve the screen When the lights turn red I put the whole thing to bed Well I've got a fever And I'm feeling fainter I'm a dim receiver I'm a Cold War painter If you can just hold still I will make you all so beautiful When the lights turn blue I know what to do I'll drown my tomorrows in an ocean or two And the pretty little things with their magnets and rings Blooming like a flower through a series of springs Thank you Fate and the freight that she brings Thank you Fortuna and that song that she sings Thank you to my manager for letting me live Thank you to my friends and the friends that you're with Thank you to the lord who created all of this There's a whole lot of hurt before you get to the bliss Why even Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss But that was long before that he got in show biz Well I understand the land, and the land ain't no sea But when I try to walk I'm sinking you see So I got a fever And I'm feeling fainter I'm a dim receiver I'm a Cold War painter If you could just hold still I will make you all so beautiful