(MP3)
Arrangement: Major Zed and Charlie
Album: Aspartame Placebo
Lyrics
Lyrics by Major Zed, rights reserved under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)
(verse 1:)
- Can you explain,
- why our lives are run by metal brains?
- A billion monkeys hit their keyboards everyday,
- we type away a paper hurricane.
- ;Are we machines?
- And if we are we must have robot dreams.
- Malfunctioning between the twilight and the dawn,
- our visions dance along on neon wings.
- ;(prechorus:)
- ;If I climbed through a hole in the ceiling,
- would it help me get rid of the feeling
- something's missing, something's missing....
- ;(chorus:)
- ;But if the voodoo dolls
- come in the mail today,
- just in time, I had to say.
- It's alright, it's alright.
- Break 'em in half
- because they gotta last.
- Back of the shelf or else they go too fast.
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls,
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls.
- (verse 2:)
- I must admit
- my life goes by while I don't notice it.
- I eat my ice cream then I see the empty plate,
- I can't recall the taste a single bit.
- Am I awake?
- Or does the dream just take on different shapes?
- I seem to remember something 'bout a girl,
- holding all the light in the world, is that insane?
- (prechorus:)
- If I climbed through a hole in the ceiling,
- would it help me get rid of the feeling
- something's listening, something's hissing....
- (chorus:)
- But if the voodoo dolls
- come in the mail today,
- just in time, I had to say.
- It's alright, it's alright.
- Break 'em in half
- because they gotta last.
- Back of the shelf or else they go too fast.
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls,
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls.
- (bridge: spoken word)
- I really only come alive when I'm walking down the bricks to my mailbox.
- The air is a dense medium that flows around me as I propel myself through a multidimensional space.
- I stand taller than normal, my eyes and ears in a separate plane, parallel to this universe.
- My arms and shoulders are charged with ionization as I reach for the handle of the mailbox.
- Will it be there? Will it be there? That little gray box from the big gray box?
- And inside, like sapphires from the moon, those ninety, perfect, little blue voodoo dolls?
- (chorus:)
- 'Cause when the voodoo dolls
- come in the mail today,
- just in time, I have to say.
- It's alright, it's alright.
- Break 'em in half
- this time they're gonna last.
- Back of the shelf so they don't go so fast.
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls,
- I'm waitin' for the voodoo dolls.
- (verse 3:)
- Do you believe,
- your mumbled pleas defeat mortality?
- I saw a speeding dumptruck full of cattle bones,
- it had to be an omen, don't you see?
- Am I to blame,
- to chase away these thoughts of future pain?
- I only want to find the formula for hope,
- then toss it down my throat,
- and watch the game.