Artist: Television Album: Marquee Moon {1977}

What I want, I want now
And it's a whole lot more than anyhow
I want to fly, fly a fountain 
I want to jump, jump, jump 
Jump a mountain 

I understand all 
Destructive urges
But it seems so perfect
I see, I see no evil

I get ideas, I get a notion 
I want a nice little boat made out of ocean
I get your point, you're so sharp
Getting good reactions with your BeBo talk

I understand all 
Destructive urges
But it seems so perfect
I see, I see no evil

Don't say unconscious, no don't say doom
Well if you got to say it let me leave this room 
Cuos what I want, I want now 
And it's a whole lot more than anyhow
Get it

I understand all 
Destructive urges
It seems so perfect
I see, I see no evil 

I'm running wild with the one I love 
I see no evil 
I'm running crazy with the one I love 
I see no evil 
I'm dancing crazy with the one I love 
I see no evil
Pull down the future with the one you love
I see no evil

Was a tight toy night, streets so bright 
The world was so thin between my bones and skin 
There stood another person who was a little surprised 
To be face to face with a world so alive

How I fell
Did ya feel low - na
Huh - I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo 

You know it's all like some new kind of drug
My senses are sharp and my hands are like gloves
Broadway looked so medieval, it seemed to flap like little pages
And I fell sideways laughing with a friend from many stages

How we felt
Did ya feel low - not at all
Huh - I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo

Suddenly my eyes went so soft and shaky
I knew there was pain, but pain is not aching
Then Richie, Richie said,
"Hey man, let's dress up like cops, think of what we could do!" 
But something, something said, "You better not." 

And I fell
Did ya feel low - na
Huh - I stood up, walked out of the arms of Venus de Milo

I knew it must've been some big set-up
All the action just would not let up
It's just a little bit back from the main road 
Where the silence spreads and the men dig holes

I start to spin the tale 
You complain of my diction 
You give me friction
You give me friction
You give me friction 

My eyes are like telescopes 
I see it all backwards, but who wants hope
If I ever catch that ventriloquist 
I'll squeeze his head right into my fist

Something comes a tracking in
What is it, what's the prediction
I'll betcha it's friction
I'll betcha it's friction
I'll betcha it's friction
How does the snake get out of its skin

Stop this head motion, set the sails
You know all us boys going to wind up in jail

Well, I don't wanna grow up 
There's too much contradiction
And too much friction
But I dig friction 
You know I'm crazy about friction
F-R-I-C-T-I-O-N

Friction
Friction
Friction

I remember how the darkness doubled 
I recall lightning struck itself
I was listening, listening to the rain 
I was hearing, hearing something else

Life in the hive puckered up my night
The kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon 
Just waiting

I spoke to a man down at the tracks
And I asked him how he don't go mad
He said, "Look here junior, don't you be so happy,
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad." 

Life in the hive puckered up my night
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon
Hesitating

Well the Cadillac it pulled out of the graveyard
Pulled up to me, all they said, "Get in, get in."
Then the Cadillac it puttered back into the graveyard
Me, I got out again.

Life in the hive puckered up my night
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon
I ain't waiting, uh huh

I remember how the darkness doubled 
I recall lightning struck itself
I was listening, listening to the rain 
I was hearing, hearing something else

The last word is the lost word 
Why don't you say so, say so

I sleep light on these shores tonight
I live light on these shores 
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head

Now you give me no trouble and you give me no help 
It is the clown that works so well 

I sleep light on these shores tonight
I live light on these shores
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head 

Our lips are sealed, our breath is burning 
These cold wild seas have left us turning

But I sleep light on these shores tonight 
I live light on these shores
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head
Elevation, don't go to my head

Do I, do I belong to the night
Only, only, only tonight
All the ladies stay inside
Time may freeze, a world could cry
All this night running loud 
I hear the whispers and I hear the shouts
And though they never cry for help

Tell me who sends these infamous gifts
To make such a promise and make such a slip
Oh no, can't pull a trick 
Never the rose without the prick 
Oh, but tell me how do I say
I woke up and it's yesterday
Do I again face this night

Guiding light
Guiding light
Guiding through these nights

Darling, darling - do we part like the seas
The roaring shells, the drifting of the leaves
But all intent remains unknown
It's time to sit up, sit up in the throne
It's seen before but it's always new
So look close and see who's come through
Never again to face this night

Guiding light
Guiding light
Guiding through these nights

Docks, clocks - a whisper woke him up 
The smell of water would resume
Caves, waves of light, the unreal night
That flat curving of a room

It gets funny

Prove it
Just the facts
The confidential
This case, this case
This case that I
I've been working on so long, so long

First you creep, then you leap up about a hundred feet 
You're in so deep that you could write a book
Chirp, chirp - birds - they're giving you the words 
A world is just a feeling you undertook

Prove it
Just the facts
The confidential
This case, this case
This case that I
I've been working on so long, so long

Now the rose, how it slows you in such colorless clothes 
Fantastic, you lose your sense of human
Project, protect - it's warm and it's calm and it's perfect 
It's too "too too" to put a finger on

Prove it
Just the facts
Confidential
This case, this case
This case that I
I've been working on so long, so long

This case is closed

Torn curtain reveals another play
Torn curtain - such an expose
I'm uncertain when beauty meets abuse
Torn curtain loves all ridicule

Tears, tears
Rolling back the years 
Years, years
Flowing by like tears
Tears, tears
Rolling back the years 
Years, years
The years I've seen before 

Torn curtain giving me the glance
Torn curtain is bringing on the trance
But I'm not hurting, holding to the thread
Torn curtain lifts me on the tread

Tears, tears
Rolling back the years 
Years, years
Holding back the tears
Tears, tears
Rolling by like years 
Years, years
The tears I never shed 

Torn curtain feels more like a rake
Torn curtain, how much does it take
Burn it down

Tears, tears
Rolling back the years 
Years, years
Holding back the tears
Tears, tears
Rolling back the years 
Years, years
The years I've seen before

Tears, tears
Years, years