The Elysian Fields Border Patrol

[Verse 1]

Panera towns

Obscenely content with

Ligament leads

Splitting heads

Palms are read

Like protection spells

An electric stun

For Stalin’s son

[Verse 2]

Literature buried

And sometimes burned

Hospice garages

In newborn mirages

The savior's taunt

By luminous white

Belief’s steps from hell

I know all too well

[Verse 3]

That ship will be dragged

Over the mountain in time

Laziness laying waste

To the days in a line

You will not remove

You will not construе

This black wreath of nails

This black mass of flails

[Verse 4]

Fuck it all

Cut the ropes

Rеjecting consolation

Longing to elope

Between

Mondegreen and milquetoast

Between fetal

Bbb-odies

And drunken bo-asts

[Verse 5]

I’m terribly nervous

For you to come over

Inescapable, it must be

I’m terribly nervous

(I’m terribly nervous)

For you to come over

(For you to come over)

Inescapable so lovely

(Inescapable so lovely)

[Verse 6]

You want my body?

Then take it!

Tear off my clothes

And with it my skin!

The astroturf lawns

The melting pink face

The emerald collar

Trimmed with milky lace

[Verse 7]

Hideous performance

That sparkling gaze

Forgetting the lines

Just throw it all away

Uh uh oh ooh

Uh uh oh ooh

Uh uh oh ooh

[Verse 8]

I am a,  I am a

I am a, I am a

I am a, I am a

I am a, I am a

I am a, I am a

I am a, I am a

I am a

I am a security camera

(I am a,  I am a, I am a,  I am a)

Watching from the corner

(I am a,  I am a, I am a,  I am a)

Playing back old tapes

(I am a,  I am a, I am a,  I am a)

The film becoming rearranged

(I am a,  I am a, I am a,  I am a)

Becoming rearranged

[Verse 9]

Cigarettes and sycophants

Laborious new firebrands

Pituitary glands

Every woman, every man

Marching bands…

Weaving hands

Marching bands…

Weaving hands

(Weaving)

La Uuuh  La Uuuh

[Verse 10]

Your xylophones

Your student loans

Your lies and lays

Your brightest days

Your xylophones

Your student loans

Your lies and lays

Your brightest days

[Verse 11]

Godless deathbed

Onions and chives

Fingers touched

While still alive

You’ve been married all along

You’ve been married all along

You’ve been married all along

You’ve been married all along

(all along)

[Bridge]

Ooooh Ooooh Oooooh

Ooooh Ooooh Oooooh

Ooooh Ooooh Oooooh

Sloppy bliss

In a split lip kiss

Split lips mend

To tear again

[Outro

You will not remove

This black mass of nails

You will not construe

This black wreath of flails