Monster Ballads

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Chorus]