Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Look and you will see
what my fate has revealed
Frightened will burn
Must the turn of the deep
Stroll of the dead
has vanquished my faith
Feel of my light illusion so bright
The darkness awakes
What choice must you make
for all of forgiveness?
Is where you were stillness?
Step over now and you will find what’s to come?
Paper and blood of the fools they are at hand
Fires of mine they will pyre our endue
Pictures of whole must present what’s in you
Now you will see
Sea there is deep
Friends I have known
Speechless unknown
Now the world is out for pain
What’s beneath that is my shade
I am the fighter
of the white and last solution
It’s your personal degree
Gratitude for self-esteem
It’s the answers in your mind
You smile and you wonder
and now you're creeping under
And thus you're the person who sees
Thus still the grandeur will freeze
Still I can wonder the purpose of me
Personal thank ‘u’s surrounded debris
Only one answer is given at hand
Death is the spirit in an unknown land
Now the world is out for pain
What’s beneath that is my shade
I am the fighter
of the white and last solution
It’s your personal degree
Gratitude for self-esteem
It’s the answers in your mind
You smile and you wonder
and now you're creeping under
And thus you're the person who sees
Thus still the grandeur will freeze
what my fate has revealed
Frightened will burn
Must the turn of the deep
Stroll of the dead
has vanquished my faith
Feel of my light illusion so bright
The darkness awakes
What choice must you make
for all of forgiveness?
Is where you were stillness?
Step over now and you will find what’s to come?
Paper and blood of the fools they are at hand
Fires of mine they will pyre our endue
Pictures of whole must present what’s in you
Now you will see
Sea there is deep
Friends I have known
Speechless unknown
Now the world is out for pain
What’s beneath that is my shade
I am the fighter
of the white and last solution
It’s your personal degree
Gratitude for self-esteem
It’s the answers in your mind
You smile and you wonder
and now you're creeping under
And thus you're the person who sees
Thus still the grandeur will freeze
Still I can wonder the purpose of me
Personal thank ‘u’s surrounded debris
Only one answer is given at hand
Death is the spirit in an unknown land
Now the world is out for pain
What’s beneath that is my shade
I am the fighter
of the white and last solution
It’s your personal degree
Gratitude for self-esteem
It’s the answers in your mind
You smile and you wonder
and now you're creeping under
And thus you're the person who sees
Thus still the grandeur will freeze
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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