The Servants - Transparent lyrics

squid on my stomach exploding fat lying on my belly pretending that i was a whale washed up on the shore in a sea blue coat and a silken streamline pink and mauve i drank from the grail don't turn your eyes away from the window it's a see-through disguise on the pillow the eye looked down as a hulking ma** spawned by the linger of floating gas that clings to the lungs close up all light with a curtain tug follow the trail of the ceiling bug and entwining tongues don't turn your eyes away from the window it's a see-through disguise on the pillow dark eyes stare from the same place where my head was bared in the icy prayer of nightmare call up small to a tiny ball or out to the hall, to the staircase fall hear a distant call the size of the bird was an ocean squid i understood it secretly shared between me and the wall and the record and you one and all grown askew but there's you and the ten or two i've seen cream in the ashtray i take back the pictures to my dark hideaway