U-Boats

[Verse 1: billy woods] Called himself Ishmael when he flipped the fishscale Slit wide open, pulled out the entrails Stumbled out dark stairwell, light two ounces Blood fillin' his J's outside the River Houses [Verse 2: E L U C I D] Twisting into self, my hair coil double helix Through the looking glass Separating body from the spirit Light the L, split the veil Fom the peak of Machu Picchu, to the belly of a whale Sip the grail, depth charge [Verse 3: billy woods] Burst above us Ears covered, dive till hull shudders No rudder Ambergris, whale blubber The sea is a beast, landlubbers scream for wives, mothers Bleached bones thrown on rocky beach, beset by buzzards [Verse 4: E L U C I D] Study science of the self Born before the Three Kings Caught welts, Orion's belt, still saggin' Lighting gas in trap house of flying daggers Feet up on glass tables Feeling fatalistic [Chorus: E L U C I D, billy woods] Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner! Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner! [Verse 5: E L U C I D] Kaleidoscopic, black agnostic Bought my burial plot on Craigslist, rock bottom discount Extinction agenda, supreme rallies in Baisley Black hoodie, black Timbs, Oh the gods must be crazy! Peonies and daisies, cocaine '80s Cop killer queens, she raised me, from the dregs Dead lectures on a ship named Jesus Sinking faster, it's all a trap Atlantic floor to haunted tabernacles [Verse 6: billy woods] Off the coast of Formosa Sent 'em to the ocean floor No mea culpa, sent boys to war Deep water, she seem gorgeous Map and compass, gat and cutlass Boat black as dungeon, smoke crack pungent Leviathan looms, a hundred harpoons plunging The loom winds its way to days of judgement Your doom finds you lying awake and lunges [Chorus: E L U C I D, billy woods] Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner! Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner! Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner! Blood in the water You dead on this corner! Blood in the water You dead on the corner!