Mist closing in,
Getting thicker,
One drops out,
Becoming quicker,
Lights grow dim,
They glimmer,
The chances smaller,
The odds are slimmer.
Dot Dash (X 6),
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 12).
Loosening my grip,
Be sure to tread carefully,
Steering a passage,
Finding a line,
Cross is on fire,
Crossfire,
Progressive acceleration,
Skidding but the expression,
Remains pan,
Radio for all,
Radio are still in control,
Understand a hand,
A hand moved me.
Dot Dash (X 6),
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 6).
Driven by self propulsion,
Turning right across the stream,
The risks increased,
With sustained leisure,
Courting death,
So will I lose?
Dot Dash (X 6),
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 6).
Getting thicker,
One drops out,
Becoming quicker,
Lights grow dim,
They glimmer,
The chances smaller,
The odds are slimmer.
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 12).
Be sure to tread carefully,
Steering a passage,
Finding a line,
Cross is on fire,
Crossfire,
Progressive acceleration,
Skidding but the expression,
Remains pan,
Radio for all,
Radio are still in control,
Understand a hand,
A hand moved me.
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 6).
Turning right across the stream,
The risks increased,
With sustained leisure,
Courting death,
So will I lose?
Dip Flash (X 6),
Don't Crash (X 6).
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What a kick ass song! Anyone else notice that the drum clicking mimics the sound of a telegraph key signaling Morse code (Dot dash)? This type of message is commonly known as a "wire message".
It's so clever! I love these guys.
best wire song.
"best wire song"? I mean it is, but I don't think that'a what the lyrics are about :-}
Obviously, they're reffering to a ship in distress... for some reason.
bahaha. this songs awesome
I hear many of the words differently from what you've listed. Some listeners think it has to do with driving in fog, which is abetted by the art on the record sleeve, but I think at its most literal level it's either nautical or aeronautical.
Dot-dash, Morse for "A", in ship signaling code means "Diver down -- steer clear." "Dip, flash" would refer to the louvered ship's light signaling device. I think people have been misled by hearing "radiator" and "radial", when it's "radio for all" and "radio are still in control". "Radio are still in control" has its most literal meaning in radio navigation of a ship or plane: the radio operators are still in control. But it's also a metaphor for something sinister: control of the masses. And it also means, consideration of having this song played on the radio leaves "radio", the institution, in control of the lyrics being used. "I understand a hand moved me", meaning commercial influence caused him to pick lyrics that could be aired.
At the end it's not, "Courting death, so ill at ease," it's, "Courting death, so will I lose?"