And it coagulated like a river of glass
And he was very different tonight
And they gathered in all directions
Nobody there 'cept for the birds
Am I all alone in this generation?
Take them up up up up up up
Pushin' it all out like latex cartoon
Like light, like Mohammed boxer
And he put up his hands and he said, “It's me, it's me
I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up
I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, please take me up
Where you are not human, you are not human"
Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it
Around the New England farm
I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast
And they were like compass grass
Up, up, to the belly of a ship
He's gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation
Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me back
'Cause he was not human, he was not human
He saw his daddy 'hind the control board
Just a little bit too clearly
Grabbin' at his cheeks, takin' out his neck
Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
'Cause when he looked up, they started to slip
It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin'
Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship"
That the sun burned around his lids
And saw his daddy 'hind the control boards
Except for him, the raven
Take me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship
Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
It's all gonna split his skull
It was as if someone had spread butter
Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, tell
And he looked around and
The true shape of a tortured woman
No longer presidents but prophets
And he saw the lights of traffic beckonin' him
The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her sons
But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm
Where I am not human
And his eyes were like two suns
And he saw raven comin' in
Don't leave me here"
And circle the blue fields and grease the night
Take me up, I'll go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up
Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
The sun had melted the sand
He looked up and the rays shot
Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it
Looked up and cried out
And fell on his knees and
I am helium raven and this movie is mine
Movin' in like black ships, they were movin' in, streams of them
All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said
The son, the sign, the cross
Well, we are not human, we're not human
Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now
Streamin' beads of light
On all the fine points of the stars
Then he put his head in the crux of his arms
Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
Slit in his nose and all the others went shootin'
Lookin' at the shiny red tractor
No black funeral cars, nothin'
Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it
Well, there was sand, there were tiles
The little boy's face lit up with such a naked joy
White lids, white opals, seein' everything
Coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
Were just two white opals, two white opals
"No, Daddy, don't leave me here alone
So he cried out as he stretched the sky
And the boy was just standin' there alone
Like the shape of a tortured woman
Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up
“I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up
Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
Like the hands of blake
Him and his daddy used to sit inside
They're all dreamin', they're gonna bear the prophet
And the ship slides open and I go inside of it
And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship
Shaman do wop, da shaman do way
Like roses they scattered
And won't let up, won't let up and I see them comin' in
There was no black ship in sight
He saw his face and where there were eyes
And he crawled on his back and he went up
Where there were eyes, there were just two white opals
When it hardened, he looked at the surface
We'll just be dreamin' of animation night and day
Up up up up up up
