I was down in the city on a miracle streetnI flailed like a swimmer through the summer heatnI was waiting for a friend that I needed to meetnAnd I's hopin' she was bringin' with her something sweetnAnd I's hopin' for an open little openingnAnd I suffer for her groovy little happeningnBut it's all going wrong just like I sing in that songnThe song I wrote about you that they put on TVnThe TV that I gave you 'cause you wanted to seenBut all you saw were spaces where the people used to benThe hundred bastard voids with their pull on menIn the valley of death you'll be breathless and freennYou'll be dancing like a fool by the solar seanYou'll be twitching like a drunk in a pharmacynYou'll be swatting at the flies and the papillionnWhere the millionaire just p-luck a zinnianFingernails are all hot vermillionnWhen the traffic grinds down to a stand-stillionnAnd the mynah birds are breaking at the carrionnAnd you read it already in HyperionnAnd you read about my trial in the ClarionnA sack full of ashes I've been carryingnWhen the lights turn green I dissolve the screennWhen the lights turn red I put the whole thing to bednnWell I got a fevernAnd I'm feeling fainternI'm a dim receivernI'm a Cold War painternIf you can just hold stillnI will make you all so beautifulnnWhen the lights turn blue I know what to donI'll drown my tomorrows in an ocean or twonAnd the pretty little things with their magnets and rusenBlooming like a flower through a series of springsnThank you Fate and the freight that she bringsnThank you Fortuna and the song that she singsnThank you to my manager for letting me livenThank you to my friends and the friends that you're withnnThank you to the Lord who created all thisnThere's a whole lotta hurt before you get to the blissnWhy even Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kissnBut that was long before that he got in show biznWell I understand the land and the land ain't no seanBut when I try to walk I'm sinking you seennSo I got a fevernAnd I'm feeling fainternI'm a dim receivernI'm a Cold War painternIf you can just hold stillnI will make you all so beautiful