Black Nemo

Marine monster stuck in Indian summers And damns on the line but funny is the photo It's floating away, going away on the tide Crystalized wished like kids cried for Christmases Ticking off lists with the pens and the fists Before floating way, going away on the tide On the back of a beast and in that charge Down a broken beach, the little stars They spin the shots, the shards light on down To the mouth of the sea and the morning comes And in they carve the edge of the world And the locks of fire go lying around What when you heard it say forward first Transfer through the person, a mystical blur Got you going away, floating away on the tide Everybody ran basements, and pit falling caves And crackling tapes cause faints Well, this songs means I'm going away, I'm floating away on the tide Down the bloody beach with a burnt out car So little I see, there are slicked out stars All screaming for a distant, high roof And the fizzed out snow, look out, folks scream And saw a broken ghost in an old soap scene ' out, follow my rules I had a vision of everything hidden But always around me, it fought me, it found me While floating away, going away on the tide Shooting through time while my eyes getting glassy And land while I watched seasons rocketing past me They're going away, a little more every day, all the time On the balcony in the brilliant sea where 'need A voice spoke to me and said these things just gotta be I don't know why, and I said here's to the freeway flasher Here's to the desperate dasher, gone, I'mma keep him from crashing on And stay one, I know you think you miss him I know you think you knew him But you were just passing through the light And he is leaving now, he's gone --- Black Nemo - Okkervil River