Bell Swamp Connection
Exploring the Enigmatic Wilderness
Lyrics
Toward the tail-end of the age that's almost finished
Toward the end of an era nearing completion
Where the highway starts to crack and nobody fixes it
Where the road is deteriorating and neglected
I was wandering through an undeveloped tract
Roaming through an undeveloped area
Out near the ocean
In proximity to the ocean
One-hundred acres, we will build to suit
Planning to construct on one-hundred acres
See what there is to see before it's gone
Exploring before it disappears
Somebody's always just about
Someone always ready to set troubling plans in motion
To put some kind of awful plan in motion
Eastern red cedars, and the pines
Mention of Eastern red cedars and pines
And suddenly an elevated stone slab
Discovery of an elevated stone slab
In what must have been a clearing once
In what appears to be a former clearing
Try to recognize the signals and the signposts
Attempting to interpret signals and signs
My curiosity
Curiosity that tends to prevail
Will likely always get the best of me
It's like that one thing
Reflection on a lesson from the speaker's Dad
My Dad kept trying to tell me
As the twilight
Describing twilight creeping over the father's body
Inched its way on up his body
Get out, get out, get out, get out
Repetition urging to leave or escape
Well of course I climbed atop the slab and I lay down on it
Climbing onto the stone slab and lying down
I am a child
Expressing childlike behavior
I had my face toward the sky
Facing the sky with eyes closed
Lying there in the sun with both my eyes closed
Woke up in near darkness
Awakening in near darkness, questioning oneself
What the hell is wrong with me
Confusion and self-awareness
Volunteer pines in their hundreds in the dusk like military tentpoles
Visualizing volunteer pines resembling military tentpoles
Let my eyes adjust
Allowing eyes to adjust to the surroundings
Try to read the markings on the slab
Attempting to decipher markings on the slab
Weird alphabets I felt sure I hadn't seen, just before I passed out
Strange alphabets, passing out
Stars growing brighter
Stars becoming brighter
Me looking up
Observing the stars from below like a caged lobster
Like a lobster in a cage down in the depths
Beneath the bottom of a glass boat
Metaphor of a captive soldier trying to warn
And I heard a voice
Hearing a voice beyond a free fall
From somewhere out beyond the free fall
Similarity to a captive soldier warning others
Like a captive soldier
He's just trying to warn his brothers
The soldier trying to protect fellow soldiers
Get out, get out, get out, get out
Reiteration of the call to get out
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