Cold black virgin spinning above an open ocean I hear, I feel, I need, I know Seven sailors swimming shipwrecked seven smudgy mirrors You gotta let 'em go Well I checked out the rotor plates Saw the babies all bathed in champagne So many miles of dirt I traveled just to park you in your shade Born away on a wave, love Born away on a wave Well they picked poor Robin clean in the shadow ravine I've seen the bowls, I've seen his teeth Words scrawled upon the streets are enemies, victory is complete And they'll be coming to collect within the next few hundred weeks I get a little soft shiver in my shoulder Cause I think there's someone watching I get a little soft whistle in my ears now But I guess it's just time passing Born away on a wave, love Born away on a wave Blessed blue black virgins shifting, in the oceans living Partly living tissue, partly always hating Give me strength and vision, watch over the earth it's listing Lady, like it's almost broken, all my eyes now closed, not open Our parents are fading out, fading out, fading out Into the fuzzy fuzz I can't; I gasp, I gasp and pale I can't get enough air into my lungs I see the bald head of a vulture Come cresting up the stairs Time holds my greenish brown and dying in a studio somewhere Born away on a wave, love And it's all for you girl Born away on a wave