Deep Sea Divers

Lyrics

Woken by a whale song, by a siren blast All those deep sea divers of Brooklyn, the phantom buses swimming past When the morning is rolled out onto the set I see two crows sharin' a cigarette While you're waitin' by the catering truck parked outside of yesterday's news For the starlet, for the stuntman, for some sign of a camera crew Then I swear I overhear somebody say, "well the sky in here looks so blue today..." I could drop all my lines, I could throw my ropes into the water I could change my mind now today looks the same as tomorrow If I could kill only the time that truly deserves to die, then so will I I see jet streams, trails of small-talk, phosphorescence on an ocean of air And I move slowly along the bottom, past old folks in their folding chairs Then Yolanda asks if I got any change Well that's exactly what he, what she said yesterday And I gave her all I had in my pockets just 'cause she's a real swell guy And she never ever breaks character, crashes my scenes or steals my lines And I swear if her pretty red toenails could speak They'd say, "there's no one else worth pretending to be..." I could drop all my lines, I could throw my ropes into the water Oh, I could change my mind when today looks the same tomorrow Oh, I could kill all of the time that truly deserves to die If I could kill only the time that truly deserves to die Oh, when I've killed only the time that truly deserves to die, then so will I