Trey Anastasio - 18 Steps Lyrics

Halloween elbow
Half-way crumbled
Elegant symbol
Acres green

All of this will end below
This artificial avalanche

Thin lines
Ever-sinking ship
Steel swings
Thin, cold stream
Enters this awful
Dream

You at the door
Always with a smile
And a wave of the hand
That you hold

For everyone
Must go up and down
Those 18 steps
Everyone
Must go up and down
Those 18 steps

Two times a day
But can't you see
What you have

For everyone
Must go up and down
Those 18 steps

To be...

Lost, empty
Languid, hollow
Still I end up rescued
Pissed, but free
Anna says to Indigo,
"All of this will have to pass."

Thin lines
Never seem to slip
Steel swings
Cold streams
Ending this empty...

You at the door
Always with a smile
And a wave of the hand
That you hold

For everyone
Must go up and down
Those 18 steps
Everyone
Must go up and down
Those 18 steps

Locusts
And angels all go down
Those 18 steps
In a broken time
Beggars wait below
Those 18 steps
At the bottom of
The chain that leads you down
Those 18 steps
Last among all equals
You go down
Those 18 steps

Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe