i went out last night to the middle of the moon i guess they call the place the thirsty fist on the tv a roadrunner cartoon seemed like the coyote was already blitzed sat down at the bar to unscrew my head out popped a ghost with a bone guitar ordered up a drink called the nuclear warhead and took a little sip from the pickle jar he looked me in the eyes as he sang his song the one about the wooden indian the one about the yeti, and jack the ripper the one about the future death machine got me kinda thinking about the muted tv why's my life always seem like a cartoon i'm always chasing down the coyote i'm always thirsty in the dark saloon who's gunna play the thirsty fist tonight? who's gunna play the thirsty fist tonight? too often in love with the twisted gold girls with the jangly teeth and the cactus curls with the skulls and guernica tattoos i can picture you in the blue swimming pool i see you over there on the pinball machine think it's the one about ACDC your eyebrow went up like a curly fry my heart spun in a circle and hit the sky well times like these wish i could play guitar like the ghost in my skull with the pickle jar shadows on the wall too big too small dancing with the birds nest disco ball well the sun man bum rushed me right out the door said he couldn't respect a hedonist but the moon man bum rushed me right back inside get thee back into the thirsty fist who's gunna play the thirsty fist tonight? who's gunna play the thirsty fist tonight?

hey kid crash and fall surf it down minimal now you can dream alone now you can dream alone now you can dream alone now you can dream open the door walk away welcome to your escape think you could take me home think you could take me home think you could take me home think you could take me to your place lightning bug, lightning bug pioneers of the wreck nevermind all the mess always you say to me always you say to me always you say hold me in your hug i can be your lightning bug under a dying moon under a dying moon under a dying moon under a night that dies too soon lightning bug, lightning bug

alone again impossible to say do you feel okay? halfway gone again unable to explain why you laugh always i'm not the only one who is seeing it now for what it is i'm not the only one but i'm fooling myself for you i'm not the only one think he's wasting everybody's time gone again another runaway how you came to be how's this go again a fuzzy memory are we all deadbeats? i'm not the only one who is seeing you now in a new light i'm not the only one but i'm fooling myself for who? i'm not the only one think he's wasting everybody's time

take the afterglow put it in a coke bottle light the fire make it take off into your head break the groove made you dead like a little noise anyway caught another boy today put 'em in your pocket baby let 'em burn let 'em stay let 'em go let 'em fade i don't wanna run i don't wanna run away of all the people you gunna blame of all the people you gunna blame of all the people you gunna blame so what's in front of you now a ten cent merry-go-round put it in your pipe and smoke it smoke rising up into the night poison blue vision of fright i don't wanna run i don't wanna run away of all the people you gunna save of all the people you gunna save of all the people you gunna save

i found the midnight sun dying in the old arcade her eyes were rainbow smiles seeing through the endless days we played space invaders jumping through the window of the game none of us ever knew her or the real meaning of her pain she was the wonder drug she was the black rainbow so we lit the arcade fire but she was all indigo we played spy hunter blasting all the enemies away none of us ever knew her or the real meaning of today

i was afraid of the illusion burning the ghost moon everyday it'll blow you up, water you down pull you laughing from the burning downtown no illusion, i can't understand myself hollow vision, i think i might be broken with your perfect lollipops ten-cent dancing to the bunny hop it makes me nervous, it makes me cold a little confused when you melt into solid gold no illusion, i think it might be magic hollow vision, who's got the remote control oh wow, oh honestly your delusion is my biggest pet peeve who's to say if we push the button the machinery won't just sputter into life no illusion, push the button wait and see holy vision, i think i might be broken

oh death machine deep in the river of my lucid dream show me the knife's edge of my lucid dream oh we're holding, oh we're holding the death machine now you're having, now you're having the lucid dream weird memory climbing the treehouse of my fever dream undercover freakout of my fever dream all my weirdo, all my weirdo memories yeah we're holding, yeah we're holding the death machine oh no more days waiting for the breakdown somebody's name written on the playground written on the playground oh i'm riding oh i'm riding the death machine keep on riding, keep on riding the death machine yeah we're living, yeah we're living the death the machine