"Monster Ballads" lyrics - JOSH RITTER

Radio waves are coming miles and miles
Bringing only empty boats
Whatever feeling they had when they sailed
Somehow slipped out between the notes

[Chorus:]
Out on the desert now and feeling lost
The bonnet wears a wire albatross
Monster ballads and the stations of the cross
Sighin' just a little bit
Sighin' just a little bit

And I was thinking 'bout what Katy done
Thinking 'bout what Katy did
The fairest daughter of the pharaoh's son
Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise
And when you're empty there's so much space for them
You turn it off, oh, then a still small voice
Comes in blazing from some vast horizon

And I was thinking 'bout my river days
I was thinking 'bout me and Jim
Passing Cairo on a getaway
With every steamboat like a hymn

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