Top Songs By Bruce Hornsby
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bruce Hornsby
Vocals
Jack DeJohnette
Drums
Howard Drossin
Orchestra
Peter Rotter
Conductor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bruce Hornsby
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bruce Hornsby
Producer
David Boucher
Mixing Engineer
Justin Vernon
Mixing Engineer
Wayne Pooley
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Time is stopped, and I'm floating there on air
I can watch myself, my head is elsewhere
I'm suspensed, suspended in midair
But surprise, surprise I'm still here, so there
Cognition is a billion years ago somewhere
Let's slip out of this life we know, into some timeless repose
[Verse 2]
Hey, come on, let's go
Down to two seventy-three below
Let's go sliding down the scale
Go down, down beyond the veil
I'll be feeling fine at absolute zero
[Verse 3]
Memory, identity, on another self-plane
And you will be sustained (With cryo-preservatives)
Robotize, enzymes, nucleotides, in time
Vitrification
Brain-edit, you will get it, if you let it
Frozen
[Verse 4]
Hey, come on, let's go
Down to two seventy-three below
Let's go sliding down the scale
Way down, down beyond the veil
[Verse 5]
Time re-starts
Another chance, it may be better next time
We'll be minus a hundred and ten
Maybe, that'll do just fine
Low temps, slow metabolism down, and then
We will stop the gradual slide
For centuries end on end
Frozen to solid
For a hundred years, and then emerge
You will re-encounter yourself
Oh, what a lovely fantasy turn
[Verse 6]
Hey, come on, let's go
Down to two seventy-three below
Let's go sliding down the scale
Go down, down beyond the veil
Written by: Bruce Hornsby