Psychedelic death

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Verse 1

Sun went down behind the mesa wall

Been walking since the morning call

Sand in my teeth and a hole in my shoe

C standard humming the whole way through

Verse 2

Snake tracks fade where the asphalt ends

Nobody out here to call a friend

Coyote singing to a bone-white moon

Something old is coming soon

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Heavy Fuzz Riff

Verse 3

Buzzard circle like a slow machine

Painted sky the color of lean

Bleached-out bones and a rusted sign

The land don't bend and it won't be kind

Verse 4

Hear that hum coming off the wire

Low and warm like a buried fire

Nothing moves and nothing grows

Only the drone and the way it goes

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Post-Chorus

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow, slow)

Guitar Solo

Bridge

Down here the sky is a lid of rust

Everything breathing turns to dust

I been counting the miles by the ache in my knees

And the wind don't answer when you say please

Drone Section

Verse 5

Down in C the whole earth moans

Every rock got a voice of its own

Lay your ear to the burning ground

Listen to the nothing make its sound

Verse 6

I ain't leaving, I ain't been

I'm just another layer of skin

On a land that swallows what it makes

And gives back heat and heartbreak

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Wall of Sound

Outro

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow,

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Verse 7

Morning come like a fist of light

Burning off the last of the night

I been sitting where the canyon bends

Listening to where the world ends

Verse 8

Little green ghost on the canyon floor

Growing where it never grew before

Roll it up in a page of news

Sit right down and pay my dues

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Post-Chorus

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow, slow)

Heavy Fuzz Riff

Verse 9

Antenna tower blinking red

Talking to the living and the dead

Signal crawling through the clay

Something's always on the way

Verse 10

Big sky leaning on my back

Every color running to black

Ten more miles of nothing new

C standard grinding me through

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Guitar Solo

Drone Section

Verse 11

Hear the low end start to breathe

Rattling the rocks and the sage and the leaves

One note held till the walls come down

Nobody speaks and it's the loudest sound

Verse 12

I got grooves worn into my bones

From sitting still on a throne of stones

If the heat don't take me the rhythm will

Rolling like a wagon down a hill

Bridge

Down here the sky is a lid of rust

Everything breathing turns to dust

I been counting the miles by the ache in my knees

And the wind don't answer when you say please

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Wall of Sound

Outro

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow, slow)

So slow

So slow

So slow

(So slow)

(So slow)

So slow

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Verse 13

Sun gone down on the seventh day

Left a bruise where the sky used to be

Something crawling up the dry wash bed

Got a taste for what's left of me

Verse 14

Roadhouse burning way out past the line

Pools of light on a cracked white wall

Somebody's laughing in a language of flies

Ain't nobody answering the call

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Post-Chorus

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow, slow)

Heavy Fuzz Riff

Verse 15

Buried car out in the sand

Radio still humming in the dash

Picking up a station that quit in '69

Playing one long note of ash

Verse 16

Woman made of heat on the horizon line

Beckons with a finger made of smoke

I walk a mile and she's a mile ahead

This is the oldest kind of joke

Drone Section

Verse 17

Bass so low it moves the rock

Every rib in my chest keeping time

Ain't a song, it's a weather system

Rolling through the marrow of my spine

Verse 18

If I die out here don't bury me deep

Just let the sand do what the sand does

I'll be humming in the fault line yet

One more voice in the low-end buzz

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Guitar Solo

Bridge

Down here the sky is a lid of rust

Everything breathing turns to dust

I been counting the miles by the ache in my knees

And the wind don't answer when you say please

Verse 19

Lizard on a rock doing push-up prayer

Worshipping a sun that don't care

I could learn a thing or two from him

Sit still, breathe slow, burn thin

Verse 20

Tank gone dry and the pump gone mad

Rusty handle pumping nothing but sand

Gonna drink the quiet till I'm full

Gonna let the empty pull and pull

Chorus

Crawl on down to the bottom of the well

Crawl on down where the hollow voices dwell

Crawl on down, let the slow heat tell you why

The desert don't care if you live or die

Post-Chorus

(Slow, slow, slow)

(Slow, slow, slow)

Wall of Sound

Outro

So slow

So slow

So slow

(So slow)

(So slow)

(So slow)

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