Celebration Of The Birthday Of The Elephant God Lyrics - Singles - Steve Kilbey

I know you don't believe anymore 

So I wonder where you got the knowledge 

With our desire to acquire more 

In the service of your master 

You can take a faster door 

I know you don't pretend anymore 

I wonder where you got the silver 

I wonder how you got the power 

I wonder where you got the fire 

It isn't that surprising 

A spiritual uprising, could affect things now 

Down the street the celebration's 

Reached disintegration, surging past anyhow 

In the service of your master 

You can take a faster door 

Servants all we ebb and flow 

Remindless as we come and go 

Changes (changeless ? ) as we die and grow 

Cold dead womb and troubled sea 

Resonate in sympathy 

I know one day you'll come to me 

With the faint whir of leathery wings 

Evoking all impossible things 

Eternal twilight feels so cold 

When the money's all gone your love's been sold 

The elephant God sits impassive 

His ivory tusks are black and massive 

We swing and we curve and we splinter in fits 

Drum 'round his throne where he patiently sits 

The law of the jungle, the jungle of lore 

Devil of the rich, God of the poor 

In this frenzied crowd I lose my isolation 

As we merge together in celebration 

The elephant God sits unmoved 

His distant eyes, our tongues and grooves (are tongued and grooved ? ) 

The noise and the smell and the terrible dancers 

Burning questions and nebulous answers 

Servants all we ebb and flow 

Remindless as we come and go 

Changes as we die and grow 

Cold dead moon the children see 

Resonate in sympathy 

I know one day you'll come to me 

Our immaterial world is best 

My fingers chase remindlessness 

But just slowly come to rest 

I know the walrus wasn't paul 

In el dorado just once more 

You're everything and even more (I'm lookin' for ? ) 

The songs of dancers fade away 

2001 became the way 

I'll pay your ransom for today 

And it still seems such a waste 

One brief life, one brief taste 

All the phantoms have been chased 

To eternity