Firewall (Companion Version)

[Verse 1]

I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul

The classicists, the posturing avant-garde

I bought a gray macaw, named him Jules Verne

He'll probably outlive me, he's a bright bird

Keeps me company, I teach him new words

[Verse 2]

I saw a hologram at the theme park

She looked as real as me through the white fog

Then she melted down to her ankles

Turned into a million-watt candle

If I knew where she went, I would follow

[Verse 3]

Walking through the land of tomorrow

Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos

In the sunshinе, try to act normal

My veins are full of flat cherry cola

Slеpt on a bench by the rollercoaster

[Refrain]

Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike

Lion of Judah painted on the side

[Verse 4]

I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades

Life's a wash, a pastoral school play

China shops and cold ivory towers

I and I make toast to the Caesars

Forcing down the dregs of Decembers

[Verse 5]

Madeline, she spins in a slow bang

All through the house, the strong smell of burnt sage

Let's make it clean and run out the spirits

I know a diving bell when I hear it

We're going down now under the surface

[Verse 6]

Light to dark can shift in an instant

Feeling close but keeping my distance

On all fours she's just so insistent

Fills my mind with jump-ropes and slit wrists

Bust through the firewall into Heaven

[Refrain]

Then I'm standing in that blinding light

Crooked crosses falling from the sky

[Outro]

Seen and seen by I and I

Seen and seen by I and I

Seen and seen by I and I

Seen and seen by I and I

Seen, yeah, seen, yeah

Seen, yeah, seen, yeah

Seen, yeah, seen by I and I

Seen, yeah, seen, yeah

Seen, yeah, seen, yeah

Seen, yeah, seen by I and I and I