The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton
by Grits
Ashes of ancients, the nations repainted,
The chaingang chatelaine changing the station,
The theme song playing, the anthem of normal,
The horrible fanfare,
The horns get distorted on a public annoucement,
The towns are impounded
Where the order resounded,
Cowards towered around it,
Powerline buzzards surveilling the night,
Talons in flight, the fake horizons ignite.
The chaingang chatelaine changing the station,
The theme song playing, the anthem of normal,
The horrible fanfare,
The horns get distorted on a public annoucement,
The towns are impounded
Where the order resounded,
Cowards towered around it,
Powerline buzzards surveilling the night,
Talons in flight, the fake horizons ignite.
Banality lives where hysteria kills,
Civilian jungles with malaria pills.
Animals bleed to buy a star from the night,
Avenue kids wear a scar like a stripe.
Send up a signal to the heavenly rescue,
When the poison's coming from the person you're next to,
Let the voltage of thought pull the plug from the wound,
'Cause if the soul is a symptom, the condition is you.
Civilian jungles with malaria pills.
Animals bleed to buy a star from the night,
Avenue kids wear a scar like a stripe.
Send up a signal to the heavenly rescue,
When the poison's coming from the person you're next to,
Let the voltage of thought pull the plug from the wound,
'Cause if the soul is a symptom, the condition is you.
We know it's a vagabond hand-me-down
This thought is a perjury blindfold
When she crawls from the Himalayan rain
With the birds of prey and weapons on fire
She's ridin' a landslide down to me
Cuttin' the shackles off of me
Shakin' the dead birds from the trees
She's taking the only air I breathe
This thought is a perjury blindfold
When she crawls from the Himalayan rain
With the birds of prey and weapons on fire
She's ridin' a landslide down to me
Cuttin' the shackles off of me
Shakin' the dead birds from the trees
She's taking the only air I breathe
Iron lungs and a plate-glass sermon,
Don't call it death on the installment plan.
She's putting the armor on my back
Raking the coals over the tracks
Taking the knife out from the stack
She's bringing the blood that I had back
Don't call it death on the installment plan.
She's putting the armor on my back
Raking the coals over the tracks
Taking the knife out from the stack
She's bringing the blood that I had back
Comin' to see it's all the same
Comin' to sing the song again
Comin' to wash it off again
Comin' to see herself again
Comin' to see herself again
Comin' to wash if off again
Comin' to sing the song again
Comin' to wash it off again
Comin' to see herself again
Comin' to see herself again
Comin' to wash if off again
(weather report, woman's voice)
The weather reports from the Houston radio station
for 0400 GMT
NW 4
Slight showers
70 minutes
1 thousand and ten falling slowly
??? away
SWS 3 recent rain, 7 miles
1 thousand and 7
rising while slowly
Lowick, W4 recent showers
16 miles, 1 thousand and 2, rising slowly
The weather reports from the Houston radio station
for 0400 GMT
NW 4
Slight showers
70 minutes
1 thousand and ten falling slowly
??? away
SWS 3 recent rain, 7 miles
1 thousand and 7
rising while slowly
Lowick, W4 recent showers
16 miles, 1 thousand and 2, rising slowly
Man 1: I picture like a, like an illuminated manuscript. You know? Made by monks. They hand do them in record form. And you’d have to have it hand-done, each time.
Man 2: Like, depending, like, change, depending on what mood you’re in. Like the best, (stammering) or, like when you listen from a different age, they’ll like, mean something different—
Man 1: --I don’t like it when they change. It… frightens me.
Man 2: You want them to stay the same way?
Man 1: It makes me feel like someone’s pushing me… from below. Put… trying to put me… turn me over, and put me down. That’s what it makes me feel like when they change.
Man 1: --I don’t like it when they change. It… frightens me.
Man 2: You want them to stay the same way?
Man 1: It makes me feel like someone’s pushing me… from below. Put… trying to put me… turn me over, and put me down. That’s what it makes me feel like when they change.
Man 1: It has to tell you how to live. It is an instruction… guide. Subtle… It doesn’t push, it nudges… it entices… er… it seduces. It has to encompass the whole world and everything that has, is, and will be..
Man 2: That’s… that’s true.
Man 1: …AND could take it into space. And that’s why we need a space ship. ‘cause that’s ultimately what space travel was all about, was sending out ships from earth into space. And not just in some, like, space shuttle that’s got the foam coming off of it. You need your own glowing, you know, multicolored… space ship.
Man 2: That’s… that’s true.
Man 1: …AND could take it into space. And that’s why we need a space ship. ‘cause that’s ultimately what space travel was all about, was sending out ships from earth into space. And not just in some, like, space shuttle that’s got the foam coming off of it. You need your own glowing, you know, multicolored… space ship.
It would be inside the spaceship, and also, the spaceship. You know what I’m saying? Like an exoskeleton.