Waves upon waves
Of insatiable flames
Split the air from the inside
While streaking their way through the sky
And they’re all I can see
And they glow brilliantly
The black night is cloaked in an emerald grean devil
Mustache stiffly waxed, silver watch in his pocket
A quiver of stars rests inside his eyelids and blinks
Languidly coaxes the prose from a poet
Navigates horsehair through channels of color
Turns life into tones which ring out in the keys of the teeth
You can see his influence in all the great works of man
Who knows what alkaloids lurk in the dense mundungus?
A pipe splits the smile of the emerald grean devil
Crooked and knotted, yet lacquered and polished
The blaze when he draws leaves the witnesses glareblind and mute
Drenched in the finest perfumes from his chemist,
Double-edged s-words house him in their corners
Astral processions, he charts with chrome sextants and tea
Can a blood-and-guts man gaze into the smoke rings and live to tell?
Or will he be banished forever to the antediluvian palace that we call the sea
Result or reason, madness or genius
Looks like the man in the Gabardine suit is a spy
Man plans, the devil laughs
All aces and eights in a roomful of straights
So kill the conductor and strike down the band
The revolution's composed with the slight of his hand
credits
from Rock and/or Roll,
released April 1, 2005
Gavin Elder: everything but the drums and horns
Ken Coomer: drums
The Sonic Fedora: horns
Charlie Brocco: engineer
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