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Spiders are singing in the salty breeze
Spiders are filling out tax returns
Spinning out webs of deductions and melodies
On a private beach in Michigan
Why can't they wish their kisses good
Why do they miss when their kisses should
Fly like winging birds fighting for the keys
On a private beach in Michigan
This recent rash of kidsmoke
All these telescopic poems
It's good to be alone
Why can't they say what they want
Why can't they just say what they mean
Come clean, listen and talk
Hello private callers, IDs blocked
The sun will rise, we'll climb into cars
The future has a valley and a shortcut around
Who will wear the crown of drowning award
Hold a private light on a Michigan shore
You fool me with a kiss of kidsmoke
From a microscopic home
It's good to be alone
I'll be in my bed
You can be the stone
That raises from the dead
And carries us all home
There's no blood on my hands
I just do as I am told
Spiders are filling out tax returns
Spinning out webs of deductions and melodies
On a private beach in Michigan
Why can't they wish their kisses good
Why do they miss when their kisses should
Fly like winging birds fighting for the keys
On a private beach in Michigan
This recent rash of kidsmoke
All these telescopic poems
It's good to be alone
Why can't they say what they want
Why can't they just say what they mean
Come clean, listen and talk
Hello private callers, IDs blocked
The sun will rise, we'll climb into cars
The future has a valley and a shortcut around
Who will wear the crown of drowning award
Hold a private light on a Michigan shore
You fool me with a kiss of kidsmoke
From a microscopic home
It's good to be alone
I'll be in my bed
You can be the stone
That raises from the dead
And carries us all home
There's no blood on my hands
I just do as I am told
Lyrics submitted by eastcidskl
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Any Rush fans?
there are a lot of angles to interpret this song through and I think it is beautifully abstract. The lyrics are very confusing. I think we have to try to listen to the music. One image that comes to me listening to this song is intense speed: an image of hundreds of huge, people-sized spiders just racing at incredible speed for the entire duration of the length of the song. Just running and running and running, across the ocean, along their spider webs.
The jagged guitar solos sound like spiders feet running along on spider webs. The rhythm and pace builds the intensity. But the absolutely mind-blowing main guitar line...Essentially grabs the listener and rips them out of their body and high into the sky above and throws them around through the clouds and sky for a few minutes. Whatever that means.
Tweedy acoustic version is on youtube I believe.