[Intro] [low-frequency drone, rhythmic clicking] T-H-A-N-D-I-L-E T-Man Uh What up The warm and the cold Yeah [Verse 1] [spoken male vocals] Uh Freezing dusk closing like a slow trap of steel On tree and the roads and hills And all that can no longer feel But the cap is in its depth Like a planet in its heaven And the badge in its bending like a loaf in the oven And the butterfly its mummy Like a [unintelligible] in its case And the owl in its feather In feather Like a doll in its lace Freezing dusk has tightened you Like a nut screwed tight on the starry aeroplane of the hard-line night But the throat is in its hole Like giggling, gurgling in slipper The high stars down the highly like rot going deeper Sleep snail is dry in the outhouse like a seed in a sunflower The owl is pale in the gatepost like a clock on its tower Morning freezing the city Sickly, shaky, shaky world Like a [unintelligible] of ice Hey The past and the future are the jaws of a steel vice But the god is in the [unintelligible] Like a key in the park The deeper on the Babylon hill like a smile of an S Like a The flea are behind plaster like the lost score of jig Sparrow are in the ivy clump like money in a pig Such as the frost The freeze moon has lost her wits A star falls The sweating farmers turn in their sleep like oxen on spits
