They're knocking down that Art Deco housenThe clawfoot tub is cracked and crushednThe mattress springs and the telephone wiresnGnash now through the air like crocodilesnnEverything is coming up in 2 x 4'snConcrete walls and concrete floorsnHigh rise homes, high rising rentnThe atmosphere is closing innnThere's no stars up above when you tilt your headnThough the night is blank and black as pitchnIt is not what it seemsnWhat it seemsnnThe polymaths around the townnYield and shift their weight aroundnOn a new boy, a young wunderkindnHe'll give us hope and cure the blindnnIt's you they've chosen, my favorite sonnTo heal the sick and cure the blindnYour path is paved, you look terrifiednYou are not what you seemnOh what you seemnnOh, what I see when I'm dreamingnOh, what I see when I'm dreamingnOh, am I dreamingnOh, am I dreamingnnYou're just sinews and bones, smiley faces and frownsnThere's a series of numbers that dictate your wilesnGreen at the wick, you are still a childnAnd you stumble when you walknnThe guileless cavalry in their brass-buttoned coatsnCan't they see no men of pithnAre going to come to lift them from the fuselagenSo let's skip town, you and InFar from where the hemlock liesnThrough the beryline hills, like ezekial's wheelsnCradling the clouds that hold our viewnnLet's pass the cities and their neon lightsnTheir copper-tops and steely spiresnLet's trade them for the simple lifenFor they're not what they seemnWhat they seemnnOh, what I see when I'm dreamingnWhen I'm dreamingnOh, what I see when I'm dreamingnOh, am I dreamingnOh, am I dreamingnnOur days back east are done in numbersnOur days back east are done and overnOur days back east are done and numberednI'll test the weights and weigh the oddsnYou'll want for nothing even when we've got nothingnNothing, nothing at all
Lyrics by White Hinterland
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