Monster Ballads

Radio waves are coming miles and miles
Bringing only empty boats
Whatever feeling they had when they sailed
Somehow slipped out between the notes

Out on the desert now and feeling lost
The bonnet wears a wire albatross
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross
Sighing just a little bit
Sighing just a little bit

And I was thinking Œbout what Katy done
Thinking Œbout what Katy did
The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh¹s son
Dressed in gold Œneath pyramids

Out on the desert now and feeling lost
The bonnet wears a wire albatross
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross
Sighing just a little bit
Sighing just a little bit

Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise
And when you¹re empty there¹s so much space for them
You turn it off but then a still small voice
Comes in blazing from some vast horizon

And I was thinking Œbout my river days
I was thinking Œbout me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway
With every steamboat like a hymn

Out on the desert now I¹m feeling lost
The bonnet wears a wire albatross
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross
Sighing just a little bit
Smiling just a little bit