Low-lands.

[Verse 1]
At the bottom of the Atlantic
There was a body and it wasn't very romantic
It was a seaman, Jewish or Italian mate
[A bit of?] flesh [a god threw on the?] water [to see what would?] stay
It stunk, from a tanker ship, sunk
[Everyone rode even beneath?] the top bunk
Better to be writing a letter to the girl back home
No joke, and the water [?] steered through bone
Skeleton awoke, no flesh is on me
Never even spoke the testimony
Consider my luck, the rest are only
Accidents awaiting [?]
Stay still, for the [?]
Can't tell from a Christian cross
From a harlot singing in the synagogue
Bloated corpses are waterlogged (yuh)
[?] and a bottle of rum
Human beings under my thumb
There's no use asking of "what'll become"
Or what's coming to pass when the body is numb from
A millenium of twists and turns
This one, he's leaking from the wrist and burns so slowly
(Slowly) Slowly (Slowly) Slow-slowwowwow...

[Chorus]
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances (hanging by the reef)
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances (hanging by a thread)
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances (hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances) ayuh

[Verse 2]
On the surface of the Pacific
I never really had a purpose to be specific
I'm just clay, thrown on a wood (on a wood)
Hold me, one day, in the woodlands
Just beneath three part the bent when I hit
With my trusty axe, the cracks, they got split
The facts, they got bent, but that's just the least of it
The [fallen ones?] are in a tent and want a piece of it
And [?] and thighs
False breasts, teeth hair and eyes
And I find it difficult to sympathize when a pale newborn, gone limp and dies
And a woman on her hands and knees [?] cries
Overthrowing the heavens where the [?] lies
Poor noise from a botched creation
These steps [?] [patience?]
And I don't have when I'm floating in the water (yuh)
A siren, struggling to breathe
I caught her in a fishnet, wouldn't ever leave
I sold her to a merchant, couldn't even grieve
It's colder on the icy middle of the Dead Sea
Where some invisible hand with strings led me so slowly
(Slowly) Slowly (Slowly) Slow-slowwowwow...

[Chorus]
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances (hanging by the reef)
Hanging by a thread I've lost my allowances (hanging by a thread)
Hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances (hanging by the reef to crosscheck some balances)

[Outro]
(soft, mumbled singing)
[Saw 'em at some leaves?]
Been hanging by a thread
[?] with my head
There's something up above
[That's feeling?] null and void
He'll only find what's left when all the humans [been?] destroyed
(laughter)