Under the pillow 
I bury my head and try to shut Chicago out 
As it turns out there's a whole other world of sounds 
of perfect fifths low skids and Arctic howls 

all saying are you going through something? 
are you going through something? 

Under the pillow a little room to breathe 
the early morning light's a pale cranberry 
I hear the Aaa-aah-aah not-wow-wow 
of a siren faraway and closing steadily 

saying Are you going through something? 
Are you going through something? 
cuz I-I-I-I I am too 

Under the pillow 
I can hear you whisperin' are you going through something? 

well honey are you going through something? 
Are you going through something? 
Then I-I-I-I I am too 
Then I-I-I-I I am too 

Then I-I-I-I 

I am too 

Gimme gimme gimme gimme-gimme 
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme 
Put me put me put me put me-put me 
In the saddle I'll ride you'll see 

There's new work in the Day Room 
I can't lounge on-line 
Don't you laugh 
I'd sell a giraffe and I'd give you half 
Just to occupy my mind 

I'll be driven my eyes always moving 
I'll be riveted to the task yea 
No smiling! That's important 
I will make my face a mask 

And I'm thinking just in passing 
What if this song does nothing? 
What if this song does nothing 

Working in the new NewOrleansWorld 
I'm emptying slots working like a ghost 
I move through huge rooms with no windows 
And no Gulf of Mexico 

Gimmegimmegimme gimme-gimme 
Gimme an opportunity gimme-gimme 
Put me put me put me put me-put me 
In the saddle please 

I'll be driven my eyes always moving 
I'll be riveted to the task yea 
No smiling! That's so important 
I will make my face a mask 

And I'm thinking just in passing 
What if this song does nothing? 
What if this song does nothing? 
What if this song does nothing 
What if this song does nothing 

Bring on the requisite strangeness 
It always has to get a little weird a little weird 
Yea you just bring on the requisite strangeness 
Bring it on then disappear disappear 
Go to be a man of the boom 
To Florida without the ocean 
But 
Don't you wanna see how it ends? 
When the door is just starting to open? 
When Athabasca depends? 
Don't you wanna see how it ends 

I can hear you 
But I can't stay here 
You left me lost in the Barrens 
You left me born on the stairs 
It's minus 11 
Inside my kettle 
I didn't come to get lost in the Barrens 
I didn't come to settle 
To be a man on the moon 
To get my little slice of heaven 
Yeah 
Don't you wanna see how it ends? 
When the door is just starting to open? 
And Athabasca depends 
Doncha wanna see how it ends 

Don't you wanna see how it ends? 
The door is just starting to open. 
Athabasca depends. 
Don't you wanna see how it ends? 
Yeah 
Don't you wanna see how it ends? 
I'm holding the door to the Barrens 
And Athabasca depends 
Doncha wanna see how it ends?