Turn up the Faders
Light strikes the suburbs in the summer,
Water
trickles and runs down the faces of children,
Laughter echoes
rising
As they slip between the sprinklers.
Faces eager for no
reason,
Is it the season, is that it?
This used to be enough
for me but now it isn't,
I need some different entertainment.
So we take the A-Train into the city,
Stick
seats shake at the station,
Pretty women's footsteps drag them
disappearing,
From the cave of the tunnel dragon,
Into the open
high-rises, skyscrapers,
Street urchins come to siege us,
Corner
preachers carry Jesus,
Like he carried the cross, toss
leaflets.
All this misdirected lust,
All these, all these, all
these people,
As dusk turns into evening,
We just get funneled
to the clubs.
So come on turn up the faders,
Sooner or
later bring the beat in,
I need it, I wanna feel lit,
Like a
fetus feels the heartbeat
Of his mother when he's
sleeping,
Beating constantly,
You are encouraged to dance
emphatically,
Manically, even desperately,
Cause who knows
where this is heading?
I'm in the backroom, drunk,
The stars
cut chunks out of the darkness.
It's a portrait of the young
artist,
As another target market,
Playing dumb in the club,
And
using liquor as a tourniquet,
Lets succumb to our desires,
Or
we'll become just like our fathers,
Bang into each other
Until
the lights smother us
And we go under.
Outside is a storm, it feels like a set,
It
feels so unreal.
Turn up the faders,
Sooner or later bring
the beat in,
I need it, I wanna feel it,
I'm in the bathroom,
drunk,
The months cut chunks out of the summer,
Days get
longer, minutes get faster,
I get older, the weather gets
colder,
They might sleep out in the suburbs,
But not here, not
here,
Come on turn up the faders,
Sooner or later bring the
beat in,
I need it, I wanna feel it, I wanna feel it.
All my friends hold their glasses,
Roses by
the stem,
Lean in like trees blown by wind in a garden,
Fall
and play jester, at the feet of dark-eyed women,
Whose every
hidden glance,
Holds a chance at new beginnings,
Here's to all
the new beginnings,
We never got back from.
Never go
home,
Never go home,
Never go home alone.