Subject: Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:15:56 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: Mercury Rev @ALBUM: Deserter's Songs @SONG: Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp sea the corporal sea atlantic's too specific haven't time to settle sharks infest the water kicking up the dust constructing new ideals old ones laid to rust nothing seems so real sliding away in a washed out delta sun missionaries flood my favorite AM stations flowing in their futures washed out in this delta rag look the other way pocket all the pieces tripping up the strawhat tumble into the wind sliding away in a washed out delta sun sliding away in a washed out delta sun waving goodbye I'm not saying hello ... @SONG: Endlessly standing in a dream weaving through the crowded streets leaving you again endlessly the choir disappears and voices in your head appear leading you again endlessly if the armies of her soul take you by surprise and flee leaving you again endlessly and the darkships of her eyes surrender to you suddenly leading you again endlessly standing in a street the line beneath the falling leaves leading her again endlessly and of all the stars above only one reminds her of leaving you again endlessly @SONG: Goddess On A Hiway well, I got us on a highway and I got us in a car got us going faster than we've ever gone before I got us on a highway and I got us in a car got us going faster than we've ever gone before and I know it ain't gonna last and I know it ain't gonna last when I see your eyes arrive they explode like two bugs on glass far above the ocean, deep under the sea there's a river running dry because of you and me far above the ocean, deep under the sea there's a river running dry because of you and me and I know it ain't gonna last and I know it ain't gonna last when I see your eyes arrive they explode like two bugs on glass she's a goddess on a highway, a goddess in a car a goddess going faster than she's ever gone before she's a goddess on a highway, a goddess in a car a goddess going faster than she's ever gone before and I know it ain't gonna last and I know it ain't gonna last when I see your eyes arrive they explode like two bugs on glass and I know it ain't gonna last ... it ain't gonna last ... @SONG: Holes time, all the long red lines that take control of all the smokelike streams that flow into your dreams that big blue open sea that can't be crossed that can't be climbed just born between oh the two white lines distant gods and faded signs of all those blinking lites you had to pick the one tonite holes, dug by little moles angry jealous spies got telephones for eyes come to you as friends all those endless ends that can't be tied oh they make me laugh and always make me cry 'til they drop like flies and sink like polished stones of all the stones I throw how does that old song go how does that old song go bands, those funny little plans that never work quite right @SONG: Hudson Line you don't need much money to ride the silver train just enough to keep yourself from sleeping in the rain satellites are chasing silver clouds away and technicolor raindrops wash gumballs down the drain gonna leave the city, gonna hop a train tonight gotta one-way ticket and the moon is shining bright gonna leave the city, gonna catch the Hudson Line 'cause you know I love the city but I haven't got the time satellites are chasing the silver clouds away mercury's are falling, yeah, who forgot to pray silver trains will whistle and glisten by the moon Molly has her kite and Joe has his balloons satellites are chasing silver clouds away I'm stuck on the tracks to sleep away the day gonna leave the city, gonna hop a train tonight gotta one-way ticket and the moon is shining bright gonna leave the city, gonna catch the Hudson Line 'cause you know I love the city but I haven't got the time @SONG: Opus 40 well she tossed all night like a raging sea woke up and climbed from the suicide machine with her spanish candles and her persian poems stuck on the rocks inside opus 40 stoned and scratching her wrists in the pouring rain she collapses down upon the ocean floor again tears in waves minds on fire nights alone by your side catskill mansions buried screams I'm alive she cried but I don't know what it means somewhere out there across the moonlit sands there's a line drawn like the lines on her own hand and slamming her eyes locking the door she collapses down upon the ocean floor again tears in waves minds on fire nights alone by your side tears in waves minds on fire nights alone by your side @SONG: The Funny Bird well goodbye southern spy I've come to love you in the light always staring in the void have your eyes all been destroyed all these digging little hands of all the stones that never land your the only one I know and farewell golden ring oh you hollow little thing like a wave along the coast I've come to love the highs and lows when in the end you're just a band a funny bird that never lands and your the only one I know farewell golden sound no one wants to hear you now and of all the happy ends I wouldn't wish this on a friend but your the only one I know @SONG: Tonite It Shows into a dream, I took a turn, and promised to return the way we were, the way we met, the way I lit your cigarette the way it trailed, into a stream, and lay down between you had to choose, a side to lose, and divide yourself in two the way you were, long before, you were a walkin' civil war but you forget, where the road goes, and tonite it shows into your soul, I tried to climb, but found the hole to high for me to leave, the way I'd learned, and found I couldn't turn the way the trees, and fallin' rain, remind me in a way the way you were, the day we met, the way I lit your cigarette the way it changed, into a strange, Cole Porter phrase but you forget, how the song goes, and tonite it shows