Colored lights speak The scent upon the breeze Glowing numbers grow The birds arrive in threes The earth turns slower still In a Christful of empty space That the devil yearns to fill With an artifact of grace You extend your arm It's golden downy fur Sways like the beach grass Until the oceans pass away Pass up and out and far away Through halls of glass sarcophagi Through the pupil of lidless eye Through heavy blankets of gaseous sky O, lay yourself aside Sifting through the shifting sand Eyebrows scattered east and west Sucking stones on eroding thrones No hope of rest or going home The day as long as it is wide O, lay yourself aside