Crimson Tide

I was like the laziest river
A vulture predisposed to eating off floors
No wait, I take that back
I was more like an ocean
Stuck inside hospital corridors

My condition in general
Despite what they say, improves
So I could care less on a night like this
I'm on the lookout for anything that moves
Crimson tide

I know when to hold 'em
And I know when to leave
I know where to go
And I know how to breathe
I know how you blow bubbles

You can look at the world
'Til you don't know what you done
You can follow a salary to the bottom of the ocean
Is that yours? Throw it in the pot
I thought I was smart, I'm not
I thought I was sick and dying

Chicken-shit singers paying their dues
A circus mongrel sniffing for clues
You watch the blonde make mincemeat of the brunette
An actress pays her debt
To Satan again and again

I say it, I don't know, just 'cause
A child coos sweet nothings to a box of fuzz
He's not a child, he's twenty-five
He's never felt so alive, crimson tide

One more dead rich runaway, who gives a shit?
Must be nice, must be the rain
When lightning strikes twice
The funeral goes completely insane
The funeral's insane
The funeral's insane
The funeral's insane

Vicious stampede, a vile promenade
But in china teacups, two fools find love
Back at Hotel Paral·lel, hysteria, I can feel it
She says "Get into the zone," the zone is brimstone and wire
You open your mouth to watch your teeth shudder
At the mirror, at the clutter

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