When they point the twisted fingers And say that I must bow And thank them all for nothing For that's all they will allow When the pieces of my nerve ends Come crawling up your stairs But you take me in And you place your smile Upon my venom eyes You read me and you know I'm crushed And I'll confess I've been out a-cruising For the young and pretty gods Then your fingertips touch mine And I see Him in the sky Oh, tell me of His garments Are they new and clean and white? And tell me how He suffered And take me to your bed Beat upon the pillow 'Til it's fluffed to greet my head You're the one who calms the angry sound You're the one who bathes my lips in brandy Let me ride upon your back tonight Fly me to the surf that's warm and sandy You're the one who guides me through the light You're the one who feeds me Kentucky candy When they crawl upon each other And squeeze out each other's eyes Because they have no time left To remember what they were And in unison they turn to me That I participate And I taste the serpent's tongue And I freeze in all my fright Can you tell them for me now That theirs is not my fight? I'm busy building Heaven Upon the shifting sand And He who walked on water Said "Ye not be turned" And why is this so hard For them to understand? That a piece of molten iron Never learned The soul of man Will someday have to burn And you're the one who calms the angry sound You're the one who bathes my lips in brandy Let me ride upon your back tonight And fly me to the surf that's warm and sandy You're the one who guides me through the light And you're the one who feeds me Kentucky candy Now they've given you a warning And all the world is dead It's on the upper level Where they'll unscrew your head The monkey people Have begun to carry things They'll roll out an oriental Through a corridor that's dark And you will see nothing But the purple bulb that shines And there you'll meet All your childhood toys And someone who looks just like you Will strap you to your throne And with a rusty mallet He'll beat your every thought Until your mind is drained From all it knows And then perhaps He'll give you back your clothes And you'll hear them all beneath you Old witches scream and laugh As they throw disgusting objects Into a boiling pot And you'll beg your name Is not upon their lips Then you'll remember Jesus For there's nothing He can do You'll search your mind for prayers That you can't recall You should've given All of them your shoes Just when you think it's over Friendly lightning then reminds You of the crawling serpent Whose body's still on flames So go crawl through the streets now They'll all look the other way For there's no-one there To climb inside your dream And you're the one who calms the angry sound You're the one who bathes my lips in brandy Let me ride upon your back tonight And fly me to the surf that's warm and sandy You're the one who guides me through the light You're the one who feeds me Kentucky candy Oh, but now it is the summer And the sun surrounds the trees I'll take you to the town Where white houses kiss the sun And you'll smell the grass That's damp beneath your feet And there's the friendly farmer With his hair so white and clean He says that he remembers But he just wants to talk He's tending to the things His hands have grown They've taken the old warehouse That stood beneath the town And now it is a theatre They didn't tear it down But most of it has Little changed at all So it's out to picking mushrooms And then dry them in the sun And it's off to Devil's Hopyard To spar and laugh for fun And I wish that we might live here But our money won't afford So we pack our things For going home again And you're the one who calms the angry sound You're the one who bathes my lips in brandy Let me ride upon your back tonight And fly me to the surf that's warm and sandy You're the one who guides me through the light You're the one who feeds me Kentucky candy Kentucky candy