White Hinterland - Destruction Of The Art Deco House lyrics

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They're knocking down that Art Deco house<br />

The clawfoot tub is cracked and crushed<br />

The mattress springs and the telephone wires<br />

Gnash now through the air like crocodiles<br />

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Everything is coming up in 2 x 4's<br />

Concrete walls and concrete floors<br />

High rise homes, high rising rent<br />

The atmosphere is closing in<br />

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There's no stars up above when you tilt your head<br />

Though the night is blank and black as pitch<br />

It is not what it seems<br />

What it seems<br />

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The polymaths around the town<br />

Yield and shift their weight around<br />

On a new boy, a young wunderkind<br />

He'll give us hope and cure the blind<br />

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It's you they've chosen, my favorite son<br />

To heal the sick and cure the blind<br />

Your path is paved, you look terrified<br />

You are not what you seem<br />

Oh what you seem<br />

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Oh, what I see when I'm dreaming<br />

Oh, what I see when I'm dreaming<br />

Oh, am I dreaming<br />

Oh, am I dreaming<br />

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You're just sinews and bones, smiley faces and frowns<br />

There's a series of numbers that dictate your wiles<br />

Green at the wick, you are still a child<br />

And you stumble when you walk<br />

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The guileless cavalry in their brass-buttoned coats<br />

Can't they see no men of pith<br />

Are going to come to lift them from the fuselage<br />

So let's skip town, you and I<br />

Far from where the hemlock lies<br />

Through the beryline hills, like ezekial's wheels<br />

Cradling the clouds that hold our view<br />

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Let's pass the cities and their neon lights<br />

Their copper-tops and steely spires<br />

Let's trade them for the simple life<br />

For they're not what they seem<br />

What they seem<br />

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Oh, what I see when I'm dreaming<br />

When I'm dreaming<br />

Oh, what I see when I'm dreaming<br />

Oh, am I dreaming<br />

Oh, am I dreaming<br />

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Our days back east are done in numbers<br />

Our days back east are done and over<br />

Our days back east are done and numbered<br />

I'll test the weights and weigh the odds<br />

You'll want for nothing even when we've got nothing<br />

Nothing, nothing at all<br />