Oh Townes Van Zandt haunts your headphones the streetlights sway You left your pregnant girlfriend in a train station in Spain. Parades burst from your brain, plaid haired girls call your name Fireflies weave resorts, built of light on perfect shores, Knife thrust, lust, angel dust, purple sky's before dusk In the back of a pick up truck, racing from your sh**ty luck, Black water in a crystal skull Drink deep and hallucinate an ancient ocean Black water pouring out your mouth Time travel to worlds composed of ice fields and sound Oh Townes Van Zandt haunts your headphones the street lights groan That piece of sh** left you at a train station all alone,, You steal somebody's purse, ravens rip through your skirt, Babies in TV screens chase you out into the street, Madrid's finest hotel, whisky and paink**ers.
If stolen master cards could pay off all this sh**ty luck Black water in a crystal skull Drink deep and hallucinate an ancient ocean Black water pouring out your mouth Time travel to worlds composed of ice fields and sound When all your friends would call her they'd say it's for the best You can't force a man to love you. He'd be a sh**ty dad. They started the trip in the city of Cannes They drank in streets under Cubist mansions And when she told him that she was knocked up you should have seen his face And when she told him that she was knocked up you should have seen his face Black water in a crystal skull Black water filling up your lungs Black water in the south of France Black water changing all your plans yeah