Swansea

If you want to come on down
Down with your bones so white
Watch the freight trains pound
Into the wild wild night.

How I would love to gnaw
To gnaw on your bones so white
And watch as the freight trains paw
Paw at the wild wild night.

All these ghost towns wreathed in old loam
(Assateague knee-deep in seafoam) —
Ho Swansea! Buttonwillow!
Lagunitas! Ho Calico!

And all these beastly bungalows
Stare distend like endless toads —
Endlessly hop down the road
Borne by wind we southward blow.

And wild and blue
The wild blue yonder looms
'Till we are wracked with rheum
By roads by songs entombed.

And all we want to do
Is chew and chew and chew!
Dear one drive on
When all we want to do
Is chew and chew and chew.

And if you want to come on down
Down with your bones so white
Watch the freight trains pound
Into the wild wild night.

How I would love to gnaw
To gnaw on your bones so white
And watch as the freight trains paw
Paw at the wild wild night
Paw at the wild wild night
Paw at the wild wild night.