Helium
"Helium" is the 3rd song on Mark Eitzel's 4th album, 1997’s West.
| "Helium" | |
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| Song by Mark Eitzel from the album West | |
| Released | 1997 |
| Format | CD |
| Length | 5:25 |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records |
| Writer(s) | Mark Eitzel & Peter Buck |
| Producer(s) | Mark Eitzel & Peter Buck |
| West track listing | |
Lyrics
Life is short in the laughing gallery
A secret handshake gets you ice cream and a key
to a brand new car that only drives into walls
Sugarcoat their eyes - all they want is your silence.
Breathe in helium
Throw away the key
Dissolve in the air: never free
In the Mile High City all that's good is the air,
a moon that follows any road out of there
Gunslingers and John Denver: they only make me sad
Anyway I always thought the Wild West was a drag
like your silence.
Breathe in helium
Lost to the day - a sense of the future fades away
There's a cotton thread all wound into a ball
Don't try and talk, caught in mid-fall
Your eyes are firecrackers, hopeless for tomorrow
Your clothes were made for dolls
You're clothed in sorrow like your silence
Breathe in helium
You're lighter than air - a sense of the future that disappears...
Video
Also appears on
- Soil Samples 25 promo Live version
- Words And Music promo