If the Brakeman Turns My Way

When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse And all your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt Better find yourself a place to level out I got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play I tried to listen to the river, but you couldn't shut your mouth Better find myself a place to level out I never thought of running But my feet just led the way Mixed up signals (moving out) Bullet train (I can't moving out) Cars are switched out in the crazy rain And I could meet you (moving out) Any place if the Brakeman turns my way All this automatic writing I have tried to understand From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand It's an infinite coincidence, but it doesn't form a plan So, I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South Gonna find myself somewhere to level out Are your brothels full, oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen? Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again First a mother bathes her child, then the other way around The Scales always find a way to level out I tried to pass for nothing But my dreams gave me away Mixed up signals (moving out) Bullet train (I can't moving out) People snuffed out in the brutal rain I could live to (moving out) Any age if the Brakeman turns my way And it's an old world, it's hard to remember Like a dime store mystery And I'm a repeat first time offender Who has rewritten history Mixed up tea leaves (moving out) Phantom pain (can't moving out) Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain It's getting better (moving out) Every day If the Brakeman turns my way Mixed up signals (moving out) Call phantom pain (I can't moving out) Cars are switched out in the blinding rain He'll be smiling (moving out) As he seals my fate (moving out) When the Brakeman turns my way