Crimson Tide

I was like the laziest river

A vulture predisposed to eating off floors

No wait, I take that back, I was more like an ocean

Stuck inside hospital corridors

My condition, in general, despite what they say, improves

So I could care less, on a night like this

I'm on the lookout for anything that moves

Crimson tide

I know when to hold 'em and I know when to leave

I know where to go and I know how to breathe

I know how you blow bubbles

You can look at the world till you don't know what you've done

You can follow a salary to the bottom of the ocean

Is that yours? Throw it in the pot

I thought I was smart, I'm not

I thought I was sick and dying

Chickenshit singers paying their dues

A circus mongrel sniffing for clues

You watch the blonde make mincemeat of the brunette

An actress pays her debt to Satan again and again

I say it, I don't know, just 'cause

A child coos sweet nothings to a box of fuzz

He's not a child, he's twenty-five

He's never felt so alive, crimson tide

One more dead rich runaway, who gives a shit?

Must be nice, must be the rain

When lightning strikes twice, the funeral goes completely insane

The funeral's insane

The funeral's insane

The funeral's insane

Vicious stampede, a vile promenade

But in China, teacups, two fools find love

Back at Hotel Parallel, hysteria, I can feel it

She says, "Get into the zone"

The zone is brimstone and wire

You open your mouth

To watch your teeth shudder at the mirror

At the clutter, crimson tide

Crimson tide

Crimson tide

Crimson tide

Crimson tide...