His died and left him a little farm in New England All the black funeral cars left the scene And the boy was just there alone at the shiny red tractor Him and his daddy to sit inside And circle the blue fields and grease the
It was as if someone had butter On all the fine points of the 'Cause when he looked up, they to slip Then he put his in the crux of his arms
And he started to drift, drift to the of a ship Let the ship slide open and he went of it And saw his daddy the control boards Streamin' of light He saw his daddy 'hind the board And he was very different he was not human, he was not human
The little boy's face lit up such a naked joy the sun burned around his lids And his eyes were two suns White lids, white opals, seein' Just a bit too clearly
And he looked and There was no black in sight No black cars, nothin' for him, the raven And fell on his and up and cried out
"No, Daddy, don't leave me here me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship Let the ship slide open and go inside of it you are not human, you are not human"
But heard the boy's cry of alarm Nobody 'cept for the birds the New England farm And they gathered in all Like they scattered
And they were like compass Coming together into the head of a shaman in his nose and all the others went shootin' And he saw the lights of beckonin' him Like the hands of at his cheeks, takin' out his neck All his limbs, everything was twisted and he
I won't give up, won't up, don't let me give up I won't give up, here, let me go up fast Take me up quick, take me up, up to the of a ship" And the ship slides and I go inside of it I am not human
I am helium raven and this is mine So he out as he stretched the sky Pushin' it all out like latex Am I all in this generation? We'll be dreamin' of animation night and day And won't let up, let up and I see them comin' in Oh, I couldn't hear before, but I hear 'em now
It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum Movin' in like black ships, were movin' in, streams of them And he put up his and he said, It's me, it's me I'll you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, take me up leave me here"
The son, the sign, the Like the shape of a woman The true of a tortured woman The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her No longer but prophets They're all dreamin', gonna bear the prophet
gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation It's all gonna his skull gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin' Like a fist gonna shoot them up light, like Mohammed boxer
Take up up up up up up Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me Take me up, go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up Up, up, to the belly of a Let the ship slide and we'll go inside of it Well, we are not human, we're not
Well, there was sand, there tiles The sun had melted the And it coagulated a river of glass When it hardened, he looked at the He saw his and where there were eyes Were just two opals, two white opals
there were eyes, there were just two white opals He looked up and the rays And he saw comin' in And he crawled on his and he went up Up up up up up up
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