[Intro – Mad Man Rant] They moved the hallway three inches left today I measured it with a spoon, I know the truth The pigeons wear my landlord’s fingerprints And every clock is chewing on the afternoon Don’t touch that door—it remembers my name I fed the sink a secret, now it’s humming in code Look, look, the ceiling has opened its eye I’m perfectly fine, I’m perfectly—no [Verse 1 – The Lunatic] Wake up with a radio under my tongue Breakfast is a receipt for a crime I never done I salute the lamp, it salutes me twice The carpet gives orders in a language of mice I take the train where the train won’t go Past a red moon stuck in a traffic cone Everybody’s staring, so everybody’s in I count their teeth, then I count again My shadow quit, left a note in the rain Said, “You owe me a body, you owe me a name” I laugh at the sun, put a lock on the day The walls nod back when I tell them to sway [Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Come down, come down, let the black bell ring I got a crown made of everything Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, hollow in the hall Hee-ya, nah-nah—watch the angels fall Come down, come down, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a little red hand underneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, teeth inside the tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m leaving soon [Verse 2 – Multiple Personalities] I wake up—no, we wake up—who’s driving this face? One wants a medal, one wants a hiding place Doctor says “Name?” I say, “Pick one from the stack” The saint in the mirror keeps whispering “attack” The child counts windows, the king counts gold The witness takes notes on the things we’re told I’m the one with the mouth full of gasoline I’m the one who swears that the room is clean Switch—now I’m gentle, pass me the tea Switch—now I’m somebody watching me Four voices argue over one set of shoes Five different alibis, none of them true We trade out the keys when the chorus arrives Everybody’s dead, but the loudest one survives [Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Come down, come down, let the black bell ring I got a crown made of everything Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, hollow in the hall Hee-ya, nah-nah—watch the angels fall Come down, come down, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a little red hand underneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, teeth inside the tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m leaving soon [Bridge – Backwards Speaking / Strange Noises] [Backwards vocal texture: “I was here before you knew my name”] The spoon says run, the floor says stay A dead man’s ringtone starts the day Mmm—ka—rrr, the window coughs I hear the wires laughing when the signal drops [Final Verse – The Lunatic] Night puts a uniform on every chair I search for the moon in the freezer’s glare My mother calls from inside the wall She says I’m the safest one of all So I lock every window, then unlock the sky Write my confession on a butterfly The neighborhood sleeps in a neat little row While something in my bloodstream learns how to grow If I sound calm, that’s the clever disguise If I say “come closer,” believe your own eyes The morning will find me still holding the key To a door that was never attached to me [Final Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Come down, come down, let the black bell ring I got a crown made of everything Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, hollow in the hall Hee-ya, nah-nah—watch the angels fall Come down, come down, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a little red hand underneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, teeth inside the tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m leaving soon [Outro – Rant Fading] They moved the hallway back. No—wait. That’s worse. That’s much worse.
