From "Wincing the Night Away"

by

THE SHINS

"Red Rabbits"

Well here are some real "stream of consciousness lyrics",cool song if you've ever heard it.

So it's not just me when I write...so read these...

Hurled to the center of the earth again

The place where it's hot love

you know it hurts to breathe in

and the watershed you balance on

is begging it

well did he ever know

will he ever know

The trees in the moonshine

are a dark lattice

so you catalogue every angle

you notice

in a vacuum you are charged to

record this

So you won't make it easy on me

I can't go into this no more

it puts too many thorns on my mind

and the necessary balloon

lies a corpse on the floor

We've pissed on far too many sprites

and their all standing up for their rights.

Born on a dessert floor

you've the deepest thirst

and you came to my sweet shore

to indulge it

with the wan and drilling eyes of an orphan

but there was not enough

there is not enough

out of a gunnysack

fall red rabbits

into the crucible

to be rendered an emulsion

and we can't allow a chance

they'd restore themselves

so we can't make it easy on you

Undaunted you bathe in hollow cries

the boys with swollen sunburnt eyes

a reward for letting nothing

under their skin

me I don't know I

might just give the old dark side a try...

Don't cast your whirling eyes on the shore

till we even the score

I still owe you for the hole in the floor

and the ghost in the hall

Who decides who paddles over the falls

yeah who makes the call

who makes the call

I know there's an eventual release

from every scale of crime

but the necessary balloon

lies like acorpse on the floor

we've pissed on far too many good intentions

held by clever sprites

and they're all standing up for their rights...

Gotta hear the song with music but it's pretty cool