A Hull Full of Oil and Bone

Paul is like an archaeologist.

Dusting with a brush of fingertips.

It seems as though he's stumbled onto something really odd.

His heart goes pitter-patter when he silhouettes the vaults.

Paul is like an archaeologist.

Paul is like a diamond hardening.

A short-range crystal order, along centuries.

Chemicals within the ground combine to something new,

A collision of the nucleus in a graphite molecule.

Paul is like a diamond hardening.

Goodbye, sweet sorrow, you've been a friend.

But I'm afraid tomorrow we must end.

You've leaned upon my shoulder oh so many times,

Likewise have I shared with you teardrops from my eyes.

Goodbye, sweet sorrow, you've been a friend.

Down the coast, around the cave.

We'll sail to where the right wells wind.

Two years a berth before the mast, we'll make a man of you at last.

From a wheezing little boy, who cries 'cause his mother is gone.

You will hear the siren's song.

We sail with a following tide.

Hard tack and salt beef, watery rum and loose teeth.

Your skin will blister, crack and peel.

You will know what the devil feels in hell down below.

But near enough to Jack.

So say your prayers and heave away.

There's nonny when we get back.

Flail off loud and furl the sails, and brace the yarn against the coming gale.

'Cause the wind is blowing and the ship will list.

Waves will crash and wash across this deck, carry away everything that ain't lashed down.

And better men than you have drowned in a bluer sea than this.

There she blows off the the larboard bow, into the boats and two are down.

Get close enough to see its eye, and throw a hook deep in its hide.

It's good as gold and we bring it all back home.

And your reward is a sailor's share

Of a hull full of oil and bone,

Of a hull full of oil and bone,

Of a hull full of oil and bone.

Your fields have lain fallow for far too many years.

They need a hand that's strong enough to till them.

I would dig a well deep within your ground.

To irrigate my dusty arid lands.

I would churn the butter,

I would turn the earth.

We could plant a tree inside the garden.

Every morning up at dawn, I'd fetch the milk and mow the lawn.

My rosebush will begin to blossom.

The peaches hanging on your trees stay sweet in my memory forever.

I have lain in the green green grass of Ireland.

I have lain... green grass, green grass of Ireland.

I've plowed the fertile earth of East Africa.

I've plowed the fields of Africa. I've sown my seed in foreign land.

I've sown my seed in foreign land.

I'll return to your vineyard, I'll return to your freeport

But I will return, to the vineyards and your sweet red wine.

I have lain the green green grass, plowed the fields of Africa, sown my seed in foreign land

I'll pitch my tent along your tangled vines.

I'll pitch a tent along the vine. Won't you let me come inside?

(Won't you) let me come inside?

I'd like to sink my shaft in your South Virginia hills.

I dream of all the treasures I would find.

My heart and my soul are copper ore and coal. Precious rubies, chased with things of gold.

Overhead the milky way shines across your grassy fields.

The Moon is rising full in front of me.

I will pass the hours wrapped beneath your stars.

'Till morning light sends you on your way.

Memories of buried gold bring me back again to dig that further.

I have seen sapphires blue and emeralds green,

I have seen sapphires blue and emeralds green, milk-white pearls from the China sea.

Milk-white pearls from the China sea.

Drilled for oil around the globe.

I've drilled for oil across the globe.

Sapphires blue and emeralds green, I'll return to the cave

But I will return to the cave wherein your treasures lie.

Pan for gold across the side, I have seen the sapphires blue, I have seen emeralds green, I find pearls of the China sea

I'll pan for gold across your mountainside.

Drill for oil around the globe, pan for gold on mountainside

(Won't you) let me come inside?

Angels fall like dying birds.

Land at our feet gasping for breath.

They are poor substitutes for our pets.

Half the morning is gone, armies have been razed and destroyed, razed and destroyed.

Calcified remains of men harden by the eternal sun.

Lie mutely on the ground as we walk by.

Overhead the mockingbirds sing titty songs.

And every mocking tune is a song for me and you.

Listing through the afternoon until the sky sends us to bed.

Behind your beautiful brown eyes

I perceive centuries

Centuries gone by

And the camera of my eye zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

Zooms in.

You're cheating on me with Depression.

I've seen her evil way, and I know.

Her deception and ability to linger on,

and stuck to what's once mine.

Insidious is her occupation,

I never saw a craft so finely honed.

But a mystified ineptitude can quickly become tight and overwhelming.

Why won't you leave her tomorrow?

I'll give her one last night to have her way.

For I miss you, and I love you.

And when you come back, I'll know just what to say.

If you won't go I'll have to kill her.

I'll leave her bloody corpse for all the rest.

So that Anger and Jealousy, Dejection and Bewilderment can witness

The consequence.

Death rolls in across the water,

Grueling slow, grueling slow...

Death rolls in across the water,

Grueling slow, grueling slow...

I ain't got time to worry anymore.

I ain't got time to worry anymore.

How am I supposed to carry this great weight, all alone?

How am I supposed to carry this great weight, all alone?

I ain't got time to worry anymore...

I ain't got time to worry anymore.

Death rolls in across the water,

Grueling slow, grueling slow...

Death rolls in across the water,

Grueling slow, grueling slow...

Let it roll, grueling slow.

Let it roll, grueling slow.

Let it roll, grueling slow.

Let it roll, grueling slow.

Let it roll, grueling slow...

Dance across the water

Dragonfly

Vicious fodder

Dance across the water

Blue and golden wingtips

Graze the surface

Make little ringlets

Rise above the hillside

On the pocket of earth and ???s.

From the pressure of the storm

That threatens you

You, you city swallow

Fabricate

Your nest of hollow

Segments of golden straw

And plucky string

That you stole

From the sweater as I sweat

Out the front room

And the water rose to the roof

It's a sad, sad state of confusion

It's a sad, sad state of confusion

It's a sad, sad state of confusion

When I am dreaming

White light blind the sky

I think I am you

Day by day we witness the difference

In the sunrise

But year by year we see the same routine

Things weren't so very different in the old days

A little more space for a few less years to live

And I have everything around me I could want

But I still need to find a place to sleep

Plow the earth and plant some seeds

Go to church and pray for rain

See the stars above our head while held against the ground

Plow the earth and plant some seeds

Go to church and pray for rain

See the stars above our head while held against the ground below our feet

I am nothing

I am nothing

I am nothing but an average of my parents

My mother's nervousness

My father's tired sigh

One hundred thousand years of breeding

You're the end result.

A shiny coat

Childish bright blue eyes

Too bad you've got no will

You probably never will

The world would still exist without accomplishments

The sun would rise and set, the stars would shine the same

If you are the last one left please bury your remains

The world would still exist without accomplishments

Plow the earth and plant some seeds. Go to church and pray for rain

The sun would rise and set, the stars would shine the same

See the stars above our head while held against the ground

If you are the last one left please bury your remains

Plow the earth and plant some seeds. Go to church and pray for rain

The sun would rise and set, the stars would shine the same

See the stars above our head while held against the ground

The sun would rise and set, the stars would shine the same

Plow the earth and plant some seeds. Go to church and pray for rain

The sun would rise and set, the stars would shine the same

See the stars above our head while held against the ground

If you are the last one left please bury your remains.

I chase lanterns in the air

I chase visions through the heart

I make love by candlelight

I burn like a candle bright

I have empires in my blood

I have feelings like a flood

There were some who called your name

There were some who called your name

Can you see through me?

We burn candles in the dark

When there's fear through me

Running circles around the heart

I know a girl who says she's strong

Been a woman for so long

There were some who called your name

A woman for so long.

I saw a boy behind a truck

Who wanted nothing less than life

What a mess that whole thing was

I could see for him no god

He had empires in his blood

He had feelings like a flood

There were some who called your name

There were some who called your name

Can you see through me?

We burn candles in the dark

When there's fear through me

Running circles around the heart

I know a girl who says she's strong

Been a woman for so long

There were some who called your name

A woman for so long.

And the man up at the head

Says he wants nothing less than life

And the bible in his hand

Grants him god's grace and give him rights

He has empires in his blood

He has feelings like a flood

There were some who called your name

There were some who called your name

Can you see through me?

We burn candles in the dark

When there's fear through me

Running circles around the heart

I know a girl who says she's strong

Been a woman for so long

There were some who called your name

A woman for so long...

My friend gave me some advice

When she sent me some cigarettes in the mail

The post office opened them

But fortunately the words remain

She said:

Don't let them see your heart

Don't manifest expression that way

If it's got to be on your sleeve, your heart

Should be blindfolded and costumed in ???

Like a plane...

The words in her letter stayed obscure

For many a year and many a day

I remembered them at your show tonight

Things didn't go the way you wanted

On the ???

So maybe I saw through you

So maybe I saw through you today

Now I can look at you

Why would I look into the sun

???

The sun is a bright bright thing

And orbits the sky to light up the day

It grows and it makes things die

Nourishing and destroying the same

But I say

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

Open your heart to me

And I say

Open your heart to me

And I say

Open your heart to me

Lines have been drawn

Battles rage on

What they don't realize

It's that there's things in life worth fighting for

But this isn't one of them

Hollowed bones are in

Wings and feathered skin

What we don't realize

Is that our feathered friends once walked this earth

In suits of shiny scales

The heads of your gods will hang in our hotels

The heads of your gods will hang in our hotels

The heads of your gods will hang in our hotels

In solemn stays

Where our drunken pilgrims congregate

In vast profusion

Someday we're gonna wake up

Someday we're gonna wake up

As we contemplate

The emptiness of space

What we don't realize

Is that the stars that we were wishing on

Are already gone

The heads of our gods will hang in your hotels

The heads of our gods will hang in your hotels

The heads of our gods will hang in your hotels

The heads of our gods will hang in your hotels

In solemn stays

Where our drunken pilgrims congregate

Until the next time

Someday we're gonna wake up

Someday we're gonna wake up...

If you could not see the sun

You would cry

If you had no room to run

You would die

If you cannot find your way

On the ground

Drink your tears

Catch your breath

And fly

If the sky should fall today

You would cry

If the moon were full tonight

You would die

And if the stars get in your eyes

And your are blind

Drink your tears

Catch your breath

And fly

Fly into the sky

If I could not see your face

I would cry

And if you cannot face the day

You will die

So if you have to go away

From this place

Drink your tears

Catch your breath

And fly

Fly into the sun

You've got to pay attention to the water

You've got to pay attention to the wind

You've got to pay attention to the weather

For the salt and the sea

Will make every man like me

And the color of the sky

And the threat of hail and snow and ice

And the wise and the sons are not the only ones

For the fish and the sea, our most exacting family

You've got to pay attention to the water

You've got to pay attention to the wind

You've got to pay attention to the weather

If you don't, you may end up like me

They took my wife and my son

Now I don't got no one

And the wind and the sail

Became my one protecting veil

And my sword and my eye

Are now the only laws that I abide by

Don't mock with me, I'll surely take you down

And the gull might tell you so

And the crab might tell you so

And the shark might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the shell might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the fish might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the plank might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the wheel might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the lamp might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the book might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the night might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

And the I might tell you so

You've got to pay attention

To the water

To the water

What would I do without a dime to my name

I'd walk the streets all alone

I'd spend my time watching night become day

I'd bask in the sun and I'd hide from the rain

I'd hide from the rain

Where would I go if I didn't have a home

No place of my own

I'd sleep in a doorway with some other boy

Who's lost his soul

And he's afraid to die

And so am I

Who would I be if I didn't have a name

Just another face

I'd be pushed aside because I'm always in the way

Nobody knows me but I always catch the blame

I always catch the blame

And how would I listen if I didn't have an ear

I couldn't hear you crying

For what it's worth you know I'd sell my soul

To buy you a jacket and keep you from the cold

I'd keep you from the cold

We like the videogames

Disenchanted with the voice of the future again

I hear you calling but I can't see at all

Tie the wires and turn up the microphone

One false move and you're taking the fall

You're taking the fall

You're taking the fall

Disenchanted with the voice of the future again

A sour breeze that reeks of death and decay

I hear it whispering its lies in my ear

What lies in my heart is not for it to know today

Is not for it to know today

Is not for it to know today

Old angry men are telling me to beware

Old angry men are telling me to behave

The nature's children are uniformly worthless

With runny noses and their videogames

I like the videogames

We like their videogames

Turn on the TV and turn up the AC

Hide in our houses while the Earth coughs and moans

We say our prayer for the billions of people

In crappy countries without HBO

We like our HBO

We like our HBO

There is no purpose in killing the president

The world is full of fuckers just like him

Sowing seeds of fear and watered with lies

Fertilized with shit they speak from within their hearts

They speak from within their hearts

They speak from within their hearts