false river

Lyrics

on the coastline, where the trees shine, in the unexpected rain, there's the carcass of a tanker, in the centre of a stain, and the waves of dead sea things, slide slick on to the stones, and the flux thicker than water, from the planet's pierced bones, in a jeweler's armoured window, you can just cast your eyes on, a diamond-crusted pendant, in the shape of bart simpson, through mirrored cops in armour, and the drift of gas clouds, drones the size of horseflies, scrutinizing the crowds, and the horsemen on a high ridge, they wheel and they ride, their work all done for them, by the turgid black tide, false river, dark flow, how far do we have to go?, torrent tumbles to the sea, this ain't the way it's supposed to be, false river, life blood of the land, consort of our earth, pulse to the pull of moonrise, can you tally what it's worth?, we can spend it till we end it, while the heat climbs up the graph, till we're panting like a salmon, with its gill hooked on a gaff, and the dark blood keeps flowing, like a hemorrhage from the womb, that birthed us, gave us substance, on our own heads be our doom, false river, dark flow, how far do we have to go?, torrent tumbles to the sea, this ain't the way it's supposed to be, false river, false river, dark flow, how far do we have to go?, torrent tumbles to the sea, this ain't the way it's supposed to be, false river, false river