Monster Ballads

[Verse 1]

Radio waves are coming miles and miles

Bringing only empty boats

Whatever feeling they had when they sailed

Somehow slipped out between the notes

[Chorus]

Out on the desert now and feeling lost

The bonnet wears a wire albatross

Monster ballads and the stations of the cross

Sighin' just a little bit

Sighin' just a little bit

[Verse 2]

And I was thinking ’bout what Katy done

Thinking ’bout what Katy did

The fairest daughter of the pharaoh’s son

Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

Ones and zeroes 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 blazing from some vast horizon

[Verse 3]

And I was thinking ’bout my river days

I was thinking ’bout me and Jim

Passing Cairo on a getaway

With every steamboat like a hymn

[Chorus]