In The Kingdom #19 Lyrics - Sonic Youth

[lee] 

They were 

Aaaah 

He did what he had to do 

He asked no questions 

He had few conversations 

The tar glistens in the noon heat 

He tread across the grass, up onto, and down off of, the concrete abutments 

Mirage on the highway 

Ghosts in the tunnel 

The dark cave 

Out into the blinding light of day at breakneck speed 

Every bolt rumbling 

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Glistening highway mirage groans 

The slick surface 

Careening into first the small mammal, and then screeching along the guard 

Rail, scraping paint and throwing sparks like sheets of pure terror for 

400 yards 

Over and over 

With one final back and forth rocking motion coming to rest 

Wheeehah 

The beautiful paintjob hopelessly marred 

Smoke and flames 

Allright 

So nice 

He moved to the small creature 

Screeching whistles of steam blowing off 

On it's back, wheels spinning like a cinema classic 

The door sags open and a man covered in blood drops the three feet or so to 

The pavement 

The car still rattling and shaking as if with a mind of it's own, unwilling 

To die 

The man, 40ish, also after a time, an agonisingly painful period of time 

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Is also unwilling to die 

Suddenly all is quite quiet there in the sunlight on the highway 

But what? what can I do? 

I cannot move, everything is about broken 

Blood everywhere, mixing with oil and gas 

What's moving, must turn my head 

Pain, white light, blinded 

Some guy there kneeling in the blinded mirage of white light 

All my strength to 'heeeeeelp' 

Screaming now help me please 

He tried to tamp out the bit of burning ember which had lept from the wreck 

Onto his grimy coatsleeve 

Coughing blood 

What's happen? 

He's he's inching towards truth 

He strode of into the woods with the animal 

It still lived 

He didn't glance back at all 

Still out ghosting the road 

Death on the highway 

Words crumble around me and fall with the weight of heaven 

I cannot move 

I'm beneath the great weight 

I cannot see 

My eyes are blinded 

I am in the darkness 

That's it 

{very low in the mix} 

In panic I forget it 

In despair I need it 

In my mind I save it 

In death I have it 

{then a bit louder} 

In panic I forget it 

In despair I need it 

I shouldn't laugh 

Hah hah hah 

Yeah really 

Oh 

In panic I forget it 

In despair I need it 

In my mind I save it 

In death I have it 

[thurston? ] 

Never gave a damn about the meterman 

I was the man who had to read the meters, man