Sailboats and Trains - Deca

My childhood was perfect

Paradise lost

Now, one is driven forward into the future by the storm

Sailing out of paradise

My father was a traveling performer with

A love circus of excessive unfortunates

Fortune tellers, dope fiends, and contortionists

That left me in Babylon where I was forced to live

On table scraps at the orphanage

I ran in the house and God closed the doors and hid

Confessed sins, evangelists say the Lord forgives

Seems right

You created me in your image

Kick, scream, blaspheme

Last seen grappling

With strange beings in bad dreams

That grow scales and bat wings

Sleep walker, sweep Eloise off her feet, sweet talk her

But keep your eyes peeled for thought police

Slow creeping down forgotten

Got the streets watching

He’s obsolete like floppy disks and beat-boxing

I believe still, I never stopped believing

I could see him even when the mushrooms were out of season

So we could let the swine roast on the spit

That don’t believe in anything they can’t poke with a stick

They don’t know about the monsters that patrol the abyss

They don’t know that Mr. One Zero’s dope as it gets

All your product’s stepped on and your jewelry’s fake

You got bass, I got uncut Peruvian flake

One taste test will take you to the next level

And apex to cloud ten without having to spend several pay checks

Today’s blessed

I’m feeling great

Like I could walk barefoot through a field of snakes

You treat my love like a five dollar milkshake

And I’m a snap and knock the taste out your grill cake

Blau

I put my mean face on

I feel safe now

Walk center stage and take a bow

Walk through a field of snakes

Bruise every head

Shake the foundation

Wake up the dead

I recall a time when all the stars aligned

Symbols on the walls and shrines

Of a solemn altered mind

I was younger then

Young and unafraid, unfazed

Unaware of pitfalls that you face when you come of age

With grandiose, lofty ideals and diatribes

They take God out your chest and place him in the sky

Preach uniformity, perpetuate lies

But can’t obstruct what I see with my mind’s eye

I spy Cane and Abel perched on a man’s shoulders

With birds of paradise and ravens overhead

He fragments into infinite heavens and hells

Pulling fish out the open ocean with a golden thread

I comb the depths for pearls every night when I go to bed

And wake up empty handed sometimes, but know the ledge

We’ve been sewn falsehoods

We’ve been misled

Shake the foundation

Wake up the dead

Today’s blessed

I’m feeling great

Like I could walk barefoot through a field of snakes

You treat my love like a five dollar milkshake

And I’m a snap and knock the taste out your grill cake

Blau

I put my mean face on

I feel safe now

Walk center stage and take a bow

Walk through a field of snakes

Bruise every head

Shake the foundation

Wake up

In what seems like the dead of winter

Beneath the protecting mantle of ice

Forces from far away galaxies

And from deep in the Earth

Are joined in the creation of new life