The Feelers - The Hold Steady

It was an early morning meet-up at the mansion up the mountain

The Maestro still had glitter on his face

They led us to the office and once my eyes adjusted

I took a little look around the place

On the mantle was a portrait of his father and the fortune

He’d amassed from being ruthless but polite

And a bottle with a model, a specific British clipper ship

On his desk there was a pistol and a pipe

The sunrise wasn’t perfect but it was close enough to count

The vibrations were impatient he said he’s sick of running out

But first we set the prices and then we talk about amounts

The sweet parade the morning brings

The drifters wearing angel wings

The hard distorted hymns they sing

So sad the night is over

The shepherds started spinning out

The cowboys trying to dismount

St. Francis with the pigeons on his shoulder

Now while you’re here in person I was kind of, sort of hoping

I could ask you 'bout a girl I met last night

She had the aura of an angel

But she had a couple problems

I guess the big one is she’s someone else’s wife

And she didn’t bring it up with any sort of plan in place

She said she was just putting out the feelers

When she asked if she could choke you

Underneath the blacklight poster

With a spaceman saying, «Take me to your dealer»

This scene, it only moves at a few different speeds

Forage and gather, attack and retreat

First we’re gonna finish up our business

Then we’ll finally get some sleep

All the things you never really noticed before

Turned out that they don’t even matter

'Cause when someone hits the switch in the kitchen

All the insects just scatter

The broken birds all headed south

The pirates with the party mouth

The corner boys all calling out

So sad the war is finished

Each daybreak there’s a new parade

From uptown through the old arcades

Along the way we lost the flame

But there’s burners in the kitchen

We’ve been staying late a lot

That mansion on the mountaintop

Did you think about the thing The Maestro mentioned?

How tomorrow’s pretty much today

And I don’t predict a major change

Seems like you and me have got momentum

Feels like now we’re in this pretty deep

We should get set up before we sleep

Feels like now we’re in this pretty deep

We should get set up before we sleep