Tinderbox

[Verse 1]

Hearing you in my sleep

Feeling you, your cadence seeps

Whispering in flashback the spectres of your memories

Fall in glistening showers

Such a tender descent

Intones this haunting lament

[Chorus]

The sweetest chill

[Verse 2]

Fearing you, but calling your name

Icy breath encases my skin

Fingers like a fountain of needles

Shiver along my spine

And rain down so divine

[Chorus]

The sweetest chill

The sweetest chill

[Bridge]

A drowning so sublime

Spins in a heavenly climb

[Verse 3]

Calling you tears thaw my sleep

Wanting you, this hoary web is weaved

From this strange confusion

Grows a perverse communication

It enthrals me and coils me around

[Chorus]

The sweetest chill

Oh, the thrill

The sweetest chill

The sweetest chill

[Outro]

Enchantment ebbs and whirls

The sweetest chill

Enchantment ebbs and whirls

Oh, the thrill

The sweetest chill

[Verse 1]

Water was running, children were running

You were running out of time

Under the mountain, a golden fountain

Were you praying at the Lares shrine?

[Chorus]

But oh-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

[Verse 2]

We found you hiding, we found you lying

Choking on the dirt and sand

Your former glories, and all the stories

Dragged and washed with eager hands

[Chorus]

But oh-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Your city lies in dust

[Bridge]

Water was running, children were running

We found you hiding, we found you lying

Water was running, children were running

We found you hiding, we found you lying

[Chorus]

Your city lies in dust, my friend

Oh-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

[Verse 3]

Hot and burning in your nostrils

Pouring down your gaping mouth

Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders

Caught in the throes, and

[Chorus]

Woah-ooh-oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Woah-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Woah-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Woah-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

[Outro]

Your city lies in dust, my friend

Woah-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

Woah-ooh-oh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend

[Sample: "It Came from Outer Space" (1953)]

Did you know that more murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once

Lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over ninety-two, it's too hot to move

But just ninety-two, people get irritable!

[Verse 1]

The day drags by like a wounded animal

The approaching disease, ninety-two degrees

The blood in our veins and the brains in our head

The approaching unease, ninety-two degrees

[Verse 2]

Long ago in the headlines, they noticed it too

But too late for the loved ones, and nearly for you

[Verse 3]

Shaky lines on the horizon

Snaky thoughts invade each person

Watch the red line creeping upwards

Watch the sanity line weaken

The volcanic depths of Hades' ocean

Bubble under, these crazed eruptions

It wriggles and writhes and bites within

Just below the sweating skin

[Verse 4]

I wondered when this would happen again

Now I watch the red line, reach that number again

The blood in our veins and the brains in our head

[Chorus]

Drink the water with jagged glass

Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth

Not ninety-one or ninety-three

But ninety-two Fahrenheit degrees

Drink the water with jagged glass

Eat the cactus with bleeding mouth

Not ninety-one or ninety-three

But ninety-two Fahrenheit degrees

[Verse 5]

Shaky lines on the horizon

Snaky thoughts invade each person

[Chorus]

Not ninety-one or ninety-three

But ninety-two Fahrenheit degrees

[Verse 1]

Come take this hand at twilight's door

I'll meet you there, we'll share the moonlit floor

Through the driving rain, colours run in veins

Ozone fills the air, two figures disappear

[Verse 2]

Come, let's take flight, let's quit this scene tonight

Whilst they sleep on endless in their wrecked designs

Sleep on endless in your wrecked designs

[Verse 3]

Moths touched by flame repeat their fatal game

Forever and eternally, the cliffs around the crashing sea

Unsolved and endless, wait for me

[Bridge]

Undulating far below

Where lucid waters flow

Their faces seem to know

[Verse 4]

Where the land falls to an end

This hidden tale begins

Take a walk with me, down by the sea

[Verse 3]

Moths touched by flame repeat their fatal game

Forever and eternally, the cliffs around the crashing sea

Unsolved and endless, wait for me

[Outro]

Wait for me

Take a walk with me

Down by the sea

Take a walk with me

Down by the sea

Take a walk with me

Down by the sea

Take a walk

Take a walk

Take a walk

Take a walk with me

Down by the sea

Take a walk with me

Down by the sea