Vision Quest Lyrics

Some days I'm too anxious to admit that I am anxious

And what terrifies me most of all surely ain't the darkness

It's not knowing when someone's gonna flip the damn light switch

I could pack my whole life inside my pockets

But shit, I'm no good at this, I'm going on a vision quest

Purely for the purpose of procuring what the the people meant

A little Little Red Riding Hood mixed with Deliverance

And there we get a glimpse of what this picture is

All taxes and taking care of dozens of drunken teens

Acting like some eighties themed homecoming queens

And all this heating with the tv a bedroom would prove to be

A more effective anesthetic than bathing in morning coffee

Talk about evaluating all of this reality

Talk about the ice caps and all of this finality

Talk about the evil and all if it's banality

I heard the snap of an appendage off a busted tamarisk

Through the bramble caught the scramble of a shadow twilit

Make haste, the figure cant be far from home base

My little neck of the woods, our lady perpetual grace

Clock ticks, crunching the leaves, avoiding the sticks

My little neck of the woods, our lady of making me sick

There she is, I peek around the corner like I'm Kilroy

What I found was something I had used to read of as a schoolboy

Eight feet tall and a stones throw from the man cave

She had no clothes but limbs posing for Man Ray

That's strange, she puts a cube of sugar on a horses tongue

The shadow said attaboy, shooed him off into the muck

Her hair was not red worn bright

In fact it was the absence of every other wave of light

And I wondered if a succubus is still considered human

Even when their head is looking like it's on a lazy Susan

I mean, oops, she must have read my mind

Her eyes zeroed in on mine

And she said, "All that acquiescing was always your greatest weapon

But it also played a role in all your sober misconceptions."

I said "you're prolly right" as if I deeply missed the message

"Look, I'm no good at this. I'm out here on a vision quest

Purely for the service of enduring this organic flesh"

She said "I hope you have exciting dreams to tell me in the morning."

And I woke up and outside it was pouring.