[Intro — cassette click, machine hum] [Dashboard Voice] engine on memory loaded destination uncertain [Alien Trio] left right nowhere left right nowhere [Verse 1 — Main Lead] big yellow sky hanging too low pink bodies dancing where the side roads go blue-faced liar smiling like he knows crowned-up sadness trying not to fold whole world built around a dashboard shrine buttons like prayers every light on time everybody talking like the map is theirs whole machine laughing through the wires and air [Fish Oracle] water in the road water in the wires [Main Lead] good maybe we'll drive better wet [Hook] DASHBOARD KINGDOM nobody driving everybody swears they are DASHBOARD KINGDOM painted-up saints hanging from the car DASHBOARD KINGDOM if the road keeps bending let it bend bizarre we don't need a straight line we got this far [Verse 2 — Blue Face / Main Lead blend] [Blue Face] I seen kings lose whole empires over one wrong turn [Main Lead] I seen bright ideas catch fire just to watch them burn road wrapped round the bottom of the room fish in the ceiling sun like a wound pink roadside people waving with no hands nobody here exactly understands but everybody still got an opinion on direction [Alien Trio] rerouting rerouting rerouting [Main Lead] of course you are [Hook] DASHBOARD KINGDOM nobody driving everybody swears they are DASHBOARD KINGDOM faces in the glass thinking they're the stars DASHBOARD KINGDOM if the road keeps bending let it bend bizarre we don't need permission to be this far [Break — percussion drops to marimba + clicks] [Crowned Figure] I used to think authority meant control [Blue Face] and? [Crowned Figure] turns out it mostly means talking while things happen anyway [Fish Oracle] glub wisdom [Beat returns stranger] [Verse 3 — Main Lead] machine in the middle got more soul than the throne city in the rearview still calling me home but home got weird and weird got loud and loud learned rhythm and started drawing crowds I trust the road more than the speeches trust the glitch more than the teachers trust a painted lie that admits it's painted more than a clean fake truth acting sacred [Alien Trio] go go go [Roadside Crowd] DON'T STOP [Fish Oracle] something beautiful is badly organized [Main Lead] finally some honesty [Final Hook — all voices] DASHBOARD KINGDOM nobody driving everybody swears they are DASHBOARD KINGDOM weird little gods rattling in the car DASHBOARD KINGDOM if the road keeps bending let it bend bizarre [Doubled Voices] we're not lost we're just bright from too far [Outro — machine voice] [Dashboard Voice] arrival impossible continuing anyway [cassette eject]
