Monster Ballads

Radio waves are coming miles and miles

Bringing only empty boats

Whatever feeling they had when they sailed

Somehow slipped out between the notes

Out on the desert now and feeling lost

The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

Sighing just a little bit

Sighing just a little bit

And I was thinkin' 'bout what Katy done

Thinkin' 'bout what Katy did

The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh's son

Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids

Out on the desert now and feeling lost

The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

Sighing just a little bit

Sighing just a little bit

The ones and zeros bleeding mesa noise

And when you're empty

There's so much space for them

You turn it off, oh, then a still small voice

Comes in blazin'

From some vast horizon

And I was thinkin' 'bout my river days

And I was thinkin' 'bout me and Jim

Passing Cairo on a getaway

With every steamboat like a hymn

Out on the desert now and feeling lost

The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

Sighing just a little bit

Smiling just a little bit