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nothing like the sound of a violin crying rubies by her throat fingers weighed with silver rings
searching for the source of the nile river but they'll never find it
and I been on that nod like an opium fiend I been gone in a poppy pod dream when
your heart beats slow and you stop your breathing
and you give in to to the colors and they sound like egypt
just like a snakeskin baby
shots lookin grainy retake them
the prostitutes priests and the traveling salesmen
living in trances and transit
lookin through the crowd , see the strangest faces
maybe scratch the itch but it don't replace it
time, time goes hazy, but
he's only dancing


fields lie fallow, something in the tarot
and her face shows nothin, like a scarecrow
one more cup of coffee
one more for the road
working classes, draining glasses
standing in the shadows, watching for the blues
an me I'm livin like that
me i'm laying low
baby i'm yours tonight, yeah it's quiet here but the war's outside
they sacrifice the young to their iron gods and cross
burn the dead like anthracite
opium smoke, like the man who fell to earth
the heart is full of gold like a purse
and for what it's worth, promise that i'll carve it into stone

nothing like the stars in the sinai desert
diamond dust on the jeweler's velvet
when i've had enough of the high life
fill up my cup choose to forget it
all the people here carry scarabs
conjure illusions bind their eyes
one of these days they'll pay the piper
maybe after that you'll be mine

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from Stories from the Panopticon, released March 15, 2015

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