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...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms

The Dreamer is Still Asleep - The Somnambulist in an Ambulance

Now the dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still asleep
The dreamer is still asleep
The dreamer is somnambulising
The somnambulist in an ambulance
A somnambulist in an ambulance
A somnambulist in an ambulance
Somnambulist in an ambulance (repeated)
Somnambulist in an ambulist
Pissed a somnambulist, er
Pissed a somnambulist, er
Kissed a somnambulist in an ambulance, in an ambulance
I kissed a somnambulist in an ambulance, in an ambulance, ...
I kissed an ambulance
I kissed an ambulance, I pissed an ambulance
I killed an ambulance, I killed an ambulance
I killed an ambulance, I killed an ambulance
Then I killed my doctor
I said, "Physician, heal thyself:
You're in no position to heal thyself
You're no position to kill yourself"
The somnambulist in an ambulance
(repeated in various arrangements)
I kissed and killed an ambulance (repeated)
Somnambulist in an ambulance (repeated)

I, I, I, I ... (repeated)
I kissed and killed an ambulance (repeated)

Hush, may I ask you all for silence?
The dreamer is still asleep
May the goddess keep us from single visions
And beauty sleep

The dreamer is still asleep
The dreamer is still asleep
He's inventing landscapes in their magnetic fields
Working out a means of escape, he says
We'll cut across the crop circles

The seer says no
There's not much time left for these escape attempts
Look at it this way
In ten years' time
Who'll even remember? Who'll care?
Who'll even remember? Who'll care?
One dies like that, deep within it
Almost inside it
It's there for a reason

I'll cut out my old address
Attack the little book
To tear and cut the paper
To care and touch the paper

The beginning is also the end
Time defines it, time unwinds it
It will end
Like close friendships
Nothing could be further
We forget the space between people and places
Is empty
We forget, and don't notice the loss
And don't notice the loss (repeated)

Crossing into venerable degenerations
Such radiant pollution
The god with the silver hand surveys this vast,
Surveys these vast contaminations

In the heart of your heart
Your eye remains
Is the hurt you? Is the blister you call loveless?
Your whole life is a cold slow shock
Your whole life is a cold slow shock

??? time
Take a little time
To track the shabby shadow down
The pissy mists of history
Down the pissy mists of history
Take a little time
To track the shabby shadows down
The pissy mists of history

The dreamer is still dreaming
The dreamer is still dreaming

Hush; may I ask you all for silence?
The dreamer is still asleep
May I ask you all for silence?
The dreamer is still dreaming (repeated)
The dreamer is still asleep

A Slip in the Marylebone Road

Ra, bai, be, om, uyi, ucha, beyom, om... (repeated)

A slip was made on Marylebone Road
A slit was made on the Marylebone Road

A slit was made on Marylebone Road
A slip was made in the middle of the road
I sat down in the middle of the road
My bags were too heavy
They were full of medication I didn't wanna take
They were full of medication I didn't wanna take
I left them in the middle of the road
In the middle of the road, in the middle of the road

And a precious green notebook
And a precious green notebook
And a precious green notebook
In the middle of the road
A slit opened; I fell
A ??? kiss from your angel
Your angel, your angel, an angel, an angel
And two people came up to me
Two people came up to me
They asked, was I all right?
And they asked me was I all right?
I said no, I was all wrong, you were wrong for asking me
Oh
And a slit opened, a slit opened
A chink, a chink opened, a whole slit
And I slipped inside of it
I slipped inside of it

And a slit opened on the Marylebone Road
The Marylebone Road, the marrowbone road
And a slit opened up the Marylebone Road
And I left my bags there
Slit, cut, slit, cut, open, cut, slit, slit, slit, slit

And somewhere, nowhere, in a hospital
Was a horse, ill
And somewhere, in a hospital
Was a horse that was ill
And I tried to find my way there
And I tried to find my way there
And somewhere, in a wood
There are two friends waiting, two friends waiting
And I tried to find my way there
In air, ???
And I got lost in the wood
And I got lost in the wood

So someone left a biscuit trail
No-one left a biscuit trail
No-one left a biscuit trail
No-one left a list of betrayals
Someone left a list of betrayals
Someone left a list of betrayals
Has someone left a list of betrayals?
Someone left a list of betrayals
Someone left a list of betrayals
Someone left a list of betrayals

And a fracture occurred in a fracture
A dislocation, a dislocation appeared, a fraction
A fraction of what I should have had happen to me
A fraction of what is in my handbag
A fraction of what should have happened to me
A fraction of what should have happened to me as I lost it
I was all tied up in a green valuable notebook
On the Marylebone Road

Snow Falls into Military Temples

Snow falls, slow falls, snow falls, slow falls
Snow falls, slow falls, snow falls, slow falls

Snow ...???
Slow falls

Into military temples
Into military temples
Into military temples
Into military temples

Snow falls, snow falls into military temples
Into military temples (repeated)

Snow falls
Snow falls

Snow falls into military temples
With a light pauses
We're the light forces
Into military temples (repeated)

Oh no! ...???

Temples... temples...

Triple Sons and the One You Bury

Triple sons
Triple sons
Triple sons

Triple stuns
Triple sons
Triple stuns
Triple stones

As they skiff across the water
As they skiff across the water
As they skiff across the water
Triple stones

Necrodisiac, necrodisiac, someone in love
With the dead things in their lives
And you're gonna bring them home
And you're gonna bring them home
Are you gonna bring them home?
Are you gonna bring them home
With a triple son, with a triple son, with a triple son?

I look into — whatever I look into, it just confuses the issues
The desert ??? in a pool, in a black pool of desert ???
There's triple sons, there's triple sons, there's triple sons
There's triple sons, there's triple sons, your triple sons
And how are you gonna bring them home?
And how are you gonna bring them home?
And how are you gonna bring them home?

In a ???-painted galleon
In a ???-painted galleon
In a ???-painted galleon
Triple sons, triple sons, triple sons
Triple sons, triple sons, triple sons

Triple sons with a resonance to rub against
With a ???
With a resonance to rub against the ???
With a resonance to rub against the ???
Oh, there's triple sons
Oh, those triple sons
Oh, those triple sons

The one you bury: the one bright red yew berry
If you're gonna bury them, bring them home first
(repeated)

And we swallow each new red berry
And we swallow each red yew berry
And we swallow each dead yew berry
(repeated in various arrangements)
And we swallow each red you buried
(repeated in various arrangements)
The one you bury, the one you bury
The single one you bury

And I drank a cup of mercury this morning (repeated)
I drank a cup
I took a cup from a sip of mercury
And a sip from a cup of mercury
(repeated in various arrangements)
I took a cup from a sip of mercury
I took a cup from a sip of mercury
And then I ...???
I took a sip from a cup of mercury (repeated)

And I swallowed one new red berry
And I swallowed the one you bury
And then I swallowed the one you bury
Then I swallowed the one you bury (repeated)
Then I took a sip from a cup of mercury
I took a sip from a cup of mercury
And I swallowed the one you bury
I swallowed the one you bury