The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)

Song The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
Artist The Doors
Album The Complete Doors Studio Albums Collection

Lyrics

[00:09.55] I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
[00:12.10]
[00:17.98] Comes out of the Virginia swamps
[00:19.91] Cool and slow with plenty of precision
[00:22.15]
[00:22.95] With a back beat narrow and hard to master
[00:25.27]
[00:33.81] Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
[00:36.00]
[00:36.63] Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
[00:39.06]
[00:41.74] I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
[00:45.01]
[00:45.94] We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
[00:48.92]
[00:49.68] This is the land where the Pharaoh died
[00:51.92]
[01:14.44] The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
[01:17.25]
[01:18.06] They are saying, "Forget the night.
[01:20.25]
[01:21.00] Live with us in forests of azure.
[01:23.18]
[01:24.49] Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
[01:27.11]
[01:27.99] Out here we is stoned - immaculate."
[01:31.04]
[01:33.48] Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
[01:36.28]
[01:37.47] I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the lose of God
[01:40.95]
[01:41.64] I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
[01:43.65] The meager food for souls forgot
[01:45.66] I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul
[01:49.58]
[01:54.08] I'll tell you this
[01:54.92] No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
[01:59.04]
[02:46.53] I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
[02:49.27]
[02:50.52] Soft driven, slow and mad, like some new language
[02:53.64]
[03:54.26] Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
[03:57.09]
[03:58.34] I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
[04:01.36]
[04:02.25] I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
[04:04.25] Wandering the Western dream
[04:06.25] Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul