Crystaleyed - The Lightning Year

Hello past lovers

Greetings old friends

I’m oh so happy I can see you all again, but

I don’t need no time machine

No phoney prayer

Cus you all come down to me

When I’m hanging around in the lair

And I swear

You’ve never been this high

I’m surfing through the sky

Oh my

I’m gonna trip and glide

And get crystaleyed

Long ago I could sense that legends would grow

And now I find a wealth in the rudest health

Waiting in a head thats splayed in the shade of time

And if there was an exam

I could fall back on a lifetime’s RAM

I’ve stored epochs of history

My heroes and the family but

Some say its a crime

To sink into your mind

Oh why?

They’d rather slip n slide

Than get Crystaleyed

Making love in the dark, necking cider at the park

Dreaming crazy nightmares, falling for the girl upstairs

Swimming nekid on the beach, taking half the tab each

Watching pornos at Brads, playing football with dad

Smashing up your first guitar, crushing on film stars

Crying when your kitten died, locking yourself outside

Laughing fits on grass, shitting bricks before class

Smoking ciggies in the woods, leaving home for good…

C’mon lets dance

I’m feeling wired

Cus in this space

You’ll never tire

The needle drops

The music starts

It lights a fire in me…

And all this joy and pain’s tattooed upon my brain

And if you wanna fly

Take these wings and try

To get Crystaleyed

Getting caught skipping school, sipping cocktails by the pool

Jamming Weezer with the boys, opening christmas toys

Riding buses, bunking trains, kissing Alice in the rain

Driving in your first car, reading Plath’s 'Bell Jar'

Coming off the BMX, bumping into that ex

Taking Buddy to the Vet, trade your favourite cassette

Afternoons at the mall, birthday parties in a hall

Getting loaded on the plane

I wanna do it again again again again again again again again

Till I feel alright…