Frank Black

Parry The Wind High, Low

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Parry The Wind High, Low Lyrics

And if a ship meets your car
You know you cant go real far
Well they could treat you real nice
Or put a tracking device
Way down inside

Im checking out inventions
At the ufo convention tonight
Planes above the hilton make it sunny
Brought my money tonight
Blue blond ladies of abduction
Strumming guitars of instruction tonight
A lot of wannabe truckers
Making eyes with starfuckers tonight

Ive got my hands on some sights
Electric glasses with lights
They got me feeling deluxe
For just a couple of bucks
Way down inside

Im getting patterns from a trekker
And it sounds like soul records to me
Theyre waving hi from some gazebo
Waving on to arecibo to me
Im getting patterns from a trekker
And it sounds like soul records to me
Im getting patterns from a trekker
And it sounds like desmond dekker to me

Sleep machine
In your silo
Transmarine
Things youve never seen

Parry the wind high, low

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by chineselaundry

19y ago

It seems to be just what it sounds like. An experience at a UFO convention. Arecibo is the huge radio sattelite observation center seen at the beginning of the film adaptation of Carl Sagans book Contact. Eyeglasses with bright lights for mood therapy. Star Trek fans. He had so much UFO stuff in his lyrics. Frank Black tells a story that when he was a newborn, his family experienced a UFO sighting.

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by Tricky1979

12y ago

Ah-ha! Bang on again chineselaundry. :-)

Love this song! The end out-of-time-in-time part is great!

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