Beck - The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton lyrics

Ashes of ancients, the nations repainted
The chain gang chatelaine
Changing the station
The theme song playing, the anthem of normal
The horrible fanfare, the horns get distorted
On a public announcement
The towns are impounded
Where the order resounded
Cowards towered around it
Power-line 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

We know it's a letter bomb 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 riding a landslide down to me
Cutting the shackles off of me
Shaking 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 pulling 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

She's coming to see it's all a sin
Coming to see the sun again
Coming to wash it off again
Coming to see herself again
Coming to see herself again
Coming to wash it off again

I picture like alike
An illuminated manuscript
You know? Made by monks they hand
Do them in record -in record
Form and you'd have to have
Them hand done each time like, depending
Like change depending on what mood
You're in like the
Bestor depending on like when you
Assume from a different age
They'll mean something different
I don't like it when they
Change it frightens me
You want them to stay the same more?
It makes me feel like someone's
Pushing me from below
Or trying to put me, turn me over
And put me down that's what it makes
Me feel like when they change
It has to tell you how to live it is
An instruction guide it's subtle
It's -it doesn't push, it
Nudgesi-it enticesr- it seduces it has
To encompass the whole
World, everything that has been
Is, and will be
And could take it into space and that's
Why we build a spaceship because that's
Ultimately what space travel is all about
Is sending a shuttle
From Earth into space and not
Just in some, like
Space shuttle it's got a little
Phone coming off of it, you
Need your ownglowingyou know
Multicolorspaceship it would be
Inside the spaceship, and also the spaceship
You know what I'm saying
Like an exoskeleton