WELL I'M STANDING ON THE CORNER
OF 13TH STREET AND EMPTINESS
WHERE THE LIGHTS FROM THE DRUGSTORE
KISS THE ASPHALT WITH TENDERNESS

THE GIRLS ARE URBAN MERMAIDS
ALOOF IN THE NEON AND BATHED IN BLUE
AND THE NEWSPAPER KIOSK
REFLECTS ALL THE TROUBLE THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH

NOW I'M STANDING WITH A CLOWN CONVENTION
AT THE GERMAN HOT DOG STAND
WITH MUSTARD ON MY SHIRT
AMONGST ALL THE WRECKAGE OF MY BROKEN PLANS

THERE'S A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
A RIP IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

AND HERE I AM JUST TRYING TO
HANG ON TO THIS WILD RIDE
IN THE DIRTY STREETS AND LIVES
OF THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO
AND HERE I AM JUST TRYING TO
OUTRUN THE DARK OF NIGHT
IN THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO
IN THE GLITTER
AND THE FALLOUT
OF THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO

WELL THE LANDING PARTY BEAMS DOWN
AND THEY'VE ALL GOT THEIR PHASERS SET TO STUN
AND IF I COULD WRITE JUST ONE GREAT SONG
MAYBE I COULD BUY MYSELF SOME SUN

DOWN SOUTH TO SAVANNAH OR ACROSS THE ROCKIES
TO THE WESTERN SHORE
BUT HERE I AM IN WINTER
WITH THE RUE MORGUE RAVENS QUOTING NEVERMORE

SLIDE THROUGH THE SHADOWS
LIKE A PRIVATE EYE IN A FILM NOIR
LOOKING FOR THE BAR IN THAT OTHER SONG
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

THERE'S A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
A RIP IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

AND HERE I AM JUST TRYING TO
HANG ON TO THIS WILD RIDE
IN THE DIRTY STREETS AND LIVES
OF THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO
AND HERE I AM JUST TRYING TO
OUTRUN THE DARK OF NIGHT
IN THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO
IN THE GLITTER
AND THE FALLOUT
OF THIS DOWNTOWN RODEO

Downtown Rodeo

Summer buried under leaves
The sky a looking glass of trees
Hibernating from the sun
Halloween for everyone

Pour myself another wine
The blood of saints and so divine
Getting dark so early now
Swallowing this tinsel town

October – you know her
She's always changing
And rearranging
Her skies and eyes
Elusive as mist
Her light... her rainy kiss

Remember when we used to smoke
On the fire escape and share a joke
But now the nights are closing in
And the geese are flying south again

So I'll pour myself another wine
The blood of saints and so divine
Another chapter after all
Closes in this urban sprawl

October – you know her
She's always changing
And rearranging
Her skies and eyes
Elusive as mist
Her light... her rainy kiss

And who broke your light?
Who brought the night?
The thief of your smile
Has nowhere to hide

Now Winter takes us
She makes us bow down to the queen
So icy and mean
With her skeletal trees

Now Winter takes us
She makes us bow down to the queen
So icy and mean
With her skeletal trees
And a crown so white and frozen
And a crown so white and frozen

Pour myself another wine
The blood of saints and so divine
Getting dark so early now
Swallowing this tinsel town

October

I felt the kiss of the rain
so cold, like a dead girl's mouth
but I hid it in shame:
don't want you to see me so down

so let me into your light
and we could be so golden now
in the depths of the fight
we could be so golden now

I'll change out of this suit -
this old suit of sorrow
let me into your light
and we could be so golden now

precious metals and sun
let me bask in your love

so let me into your light
and we could be so golden now
in the depths of the fight
we could be so golden now

I'll change out of this suit -
this old suit of sorrow
let me into your light
and we could be so golden now

precious metals and sun
let me bask in your love

and just for a while
we'll hold out the rainy day
so golden now
shining down in yellow rays

Golden Now

deep red vinyl like my ventricles
deep red vinyl like her lips
we ride in whispers on this horror bus
the mater lachrimarum trip
profondo rosso e giallo
through the outskirts we will slip
away

deep red vinyl like the bloodbath moon
deep red vinyl spinning round
we walk the corridors of institutions
the mater suspiriorum sound
profondo rosso e giallo
a curse is hanging on this town

what you gonna do when the shadows start stretching?
what you gonna do when the knives are out?
I wrote a story but the ending eludes me
all I saw were the ripples as the witches drowned

profondo rosso e giallo
these are the colours of my mind
profondo rosso e giallo
these are the colours of my life

what you gonna do when the shadows start stretching?
what you gonna do when the knives are out?
I wrote a story but the ending eludes me
all I saw were the ripples as the witches drowned

Put the needle in the deep red vinyl

Deep Red Vinyl

it's so heavy, man
there's such a cost
weighed-down in the moment
but with motorways to cross
from favelas
to the mirrors in versailles
we are merely travellers
passing through this life

but one day you will find
you're suspended in time
a bubble in the stream
in the dust-mote light
nirvana attained
in the bus stop rain
a scene from a dream
where your freeze-frame mind
is weightless
so weightless

here we go
in slo-mo
adrift in zero gravity
astronauts in our own home
in a sea of zero gravity

but one day you will find
you're suspended in time
a bubble in the stream
in the dust-mote light
nirvana attained
in the bus stop rain
a scene from a dream
where your freeze-frame mind
is weightless
so weightless

Downtown Rodeo

Max Greco

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