Beck Follow

Ashes of ancients

the nations of pavement

The chain gang ? playing ?? to station

the themesong playing

the anthem of moment(?)

the horrible fanfare

the points are distorted

The public announcement

The towns are ???

???

??? are rampant

Talons in flight

Fake horizons at night.

The ?? lives

Where histeria kills

It's a ?? jungle

With maleria pills

Animals bleedin'

By a ??? from the night

Area kids wearing

scars like a stripe

Send up a signal

to the heavenly basket

When the poisons comin'

from the person your next to

Let the vultures of thought

pull the blood from the wound

Cause if a soul is a symptom

The condition is you

(unintelligable computerized woman's voice)

We know it's a ?? hand-me-down

This though is a purgery blindfold

When she crawls from the Himalayan rain

Where the birds of prey and the weapons on fire

She's ridin' a landslide down to me

Cuttin' the shackles off of me

Shakin' the dead birds from the trees

She's takin' the only air I breathe

Are you lost in a plate glass summer?

Don't call it a destiny (or "death of me") installment plan

She's puttin' the armor on my back

Rigging the codes although (could be "all through") the tracks

Takin' a knife out from the stack

She's bringin' the blood that I had back

Comin' to see it's all the same

Comin' to see the sun again

Comin' to wash it off again

Comin' to see herself again

Comin' to see herself again

Comin' to wash it off again

(weather report, woman's voice)

The ?/ reports from the ?? radio station

for 0400 GMT

NW 4

Slight showers

70 minutes

1 thousand and ten falling slowly

??? away

SWS 3 resent rain, 7 miles

1 thousand and 7

rising while slowly

Lowick, W4 resent showers

16 miles, 1 thousand and 2, rising slowly

(Talking:person one)

"I picture like an illuminated manuscript, ya know." "??? ... they hand do them ???... you'd have to have them hand done... each time" (stammering) "like change depending on what mood your in... like the best...or depending on like when you listen from a different age... could mean somethin' different"

(Talking:person two)

"I don't like it when they change" "....it....frightens me"

(Talking:person one)

"you want them to stay the same"

(Talking:person two)

"It makes me feel like someones pushing me from below...tryin' to put me... turn me over and put me down" "that's what it makes me feel like when they change."

"it has to tell you how to live... it (stammering) has, is an instruction guide. Subtle. It doesn't push. It nudges. It entices..or suduces. It has to encompass the whole world. Everything that has been. That is. And will be.

(Talking:person one)

thats.. thats true

(Talking:person two)

"..AND could take it into space. And that's why you build a space ship. Because ultimately that's what space travel is all about. Was sending up ships from earth into space. And not just in some space shuttle thats got all the foam comming off of it. You need your own, glowing, ya know multi-colored.... space ship. It would be inside the space ship and.. the space ship. You know what I'm saying?

Like an exoskeleton.