Thea Gilmore - Apparition No. 12 lyrics
[Thea Gilmore - Apparition No. 12 lyrics]
Hey now my red clouds're rolling in
To catalogue and number every
Stone cold dream
And I've seen Sal thumbing his
Way up to the stars
I've seen angels in the shooting galleries
And heroes in the bars
I've seen a death warrant out on the moon
I saw what happened when the
Prophet spoke too soon
And I heard the radio sneeze into the evening
And all the bat-squeak singers selling
Fake hope to the sleeping
I've seen the cover up of cold hard facts
And they're burning acid holes
In the magazine racks
And I saw Jenny have a baby in the street
Where they're playing blind
Mans bluff between
The dying and the concrete
I've seen a paper corpse holing up a doorway
I heard the lonely voices singing "yeah
I did it your way"
And I held the future up to a looking glass
It bears a striking resemblance to
The embers of the past
I've seen the chorus-girls
The ribbons and the rot
Seen electoral debates on the steel-rim
Of a whiskey shot
And I caught the glimmer in a hurricane's eye
I've seen these AK-47s with their
Noses to the sky
And I smelled the ghosts of
The ashes and the orchids
I've got promises tattooed to the
Insides of my eyelids
And I'll be watching when
The Richter reaches 10
I bled by these weapons, babe
And now I'm one of them
To catalogue and number every
Stone cold dream
And I've seen Sal thumbing his
Way up to the stars
I've seen angels in the shooting galleries
And heroes in the bars
I've seen a death warrant out on the moon
I saw what happened when the
Prophet spoke too soon
And I heard the radio sneeze into the evening
And all the bat-squeak singers selling
Fake hope to the sleeping
I've seen the cover up of cold hard facts
And they're burning acid holes
In the magazine racks
And I saw Jenny have a baby in the street
Where they're playing blind
Mans bluff between
The dying and the concrete
I've seen a paper corpse holing up a doorway
I heard the lonely voices singing "yeah
I did it your way"
And I held the future up to a looking glass
It bears a striking resemblance to
The embers of the past
I've seen the chorus-girls
The ribbons and the rot
Seen electoral debates on the steel-rim
Of a whiskey shot
And I caught the glimmer in a hurricane's eye
I've seen these AK-47s with their
Noses to the sky
And I smelled the ghosts of
The ashes and the orchids
I've got promises tattooed to the
Insides of my eyelids
And I'll be watching when
The Richter reaches 10
I bled by these weapons, babe
And now I'm one of them