Hoist

Summer sitting out by the pool
A ray of sunshine getting in my way
Close your eyes and wish that it were cool
Everyday

And i wish it could be back the other way
But what's dissolved ain't coming back today
Close your eyes and wish that it were
Close your eyes and wish that it were

Axilla axilla axilla axilla

Never understood what my body was for
That's why i always leave it layin out on the floor
The shape a curiosity
Where different faces fit before

And tracing my image in the sand
To pass the time from slip to fall
The line i trace begins to weave
A tangled web from wall to wall

Danger
I've been told to expect it
I begin my descent
Down the cold granite steps

And who could have turned among those i confide in?
I think that i know what i haven't known yet
'cause a week is a month
And an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away
With your past and your future precisely divided
Am i at that moment?
I haven't decided

And stretching out into the sea... aquitana
Is that what the prophet told me he saw?
You gave it to me but i really don't want it
I came out on top by the luck of the draw
'cause a week is a month and an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away
And what's the return on the faith i've provided?
I think that i know now but i haven't decided

You may as well keep your belly full
For the time may come when you'll rely on the layer of fat
That separates you from the rabid dog and the common fly
To a less demanding place on your spine
I feel you shift my weight around
I squirm and roll beneath your flesh
Just like the guy you met in town

He's yelling at the parking lot
Throwing beer cans down the stairs
Driving home to mom and dad
To spend a weekend with no cares

Kitty malone sat on a mule
Was riding in style
When suddenly, like the sound of a buzzard's breaking
Kity felt laser beams being fired at her head
She said, "i hate laser beams
And you never done see me askin'
For a ufo
In tomahawk county"

Well she kicked the mule
And it walked the path
And the aliens fired from behind
Till she stopped the mule
And she kicked the rump
And the big old mule took a big old dump

Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
Take your laser beams away
Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
You better stop that laser game
Or you'll smell my mule

She felt the fire against her neck
And it saddened her to feel it burn
When suddenly, like the sound of a breeding holstein
Kitty said, "stop, we ain't lookin' for fightin'
In tomahawk county."

A little guy from the ufo
Came on out and said his name was joe
She said, "come on over for some lemonade
Just follow me now with the whole brigade"

Chorus

They walked into her cabin shack
They had never seen a southern home
And they liked it, better than their ufo
They liked it, they really liked it
They said, "here's a place of elegance
Here we shower ourselves in lightness"

Chorus

Down with disease
Three weeks in my bed
Trying to stop these demons that keep dancing in my head

Down with disease
Up before the dawn
A thousand barefoot children outside dancing on my lawn, and i keep

Waiting for the time when i can finally say
That this has all been wonderful but now i'm on my way
But when i think it's time to leave it all behind
I try to find a way but there's nothing i can say to make it stop

Down with disease and the jungles in my mind
They're climbing up my waterfalls and swingin' on my vines
So i try to hear the music but i'm always losing time
'cause they're stepping on my rhythm and they're stealin' all my lines
Stealin' all my lines and i keep

Waiting for the time when i can finally say
That this has all been wonderful but now i'm on my way
But when i think it's time to leave it all behind
I try to find a way but there's nothing i can say to make it stop