Swansea

if you want to come on down

down with your bones so white

and watch the freight trains pound

into the wild, wild night



how i would love to gnaw

gnaw on your bones so white

and watch while the freight trains paw

paw at the wild, wild night



all these ghost towns, wreathed in old loam

assateague knee-deep in seafoam

ho swansea! buttonwillow!

lagunitas! ho calico!



and all these beastly bungalows

stare, distend, like endless toads

endlessly hop down the road

borne by wind, we southward blow



and yonder, wild and blue

the wild blue yonder looms

till we are wracked with rheum

by roads, by songs entombed



and all we want to do

is chew, and chew, and chew!

dear one, drive on

when all we want to do

is chew, and chew, and chew



and if you want to come on down

down with your bones so white

watch while the freight trains pound

into the wild, wild night



how i would love to gnaw

to gnaw on your bones so white

and watch while the freight trains paw

paw at the wild, wild night