Wrap your brain in a plaster cast Fifteen years before the mast Unchartered seas of the 316 Tough to trust all the things you've seen Sweep the plague from the deck Keep your nerves and your pride in check And then you set your sails for the Georgia skies And then you kiss your mother's face goodbye You know better than to try Man just wasn't meant to fly Join your friends in the drowning pool Then you bite your tongue to keep your cool And the angel hearts in the 503 Well they lick your lips and they taste your heart You know better than to try Man just wasn't meant to fly It's time to get up off your knees Prayers and wonders, worlds to see Tongue on the trigger Dive on the knife Days of wonder A beautiful life Beautiful violence Beautiful words We're floating backwards In a counter clock world In a counter clock world Turn your sweat back into wine Don't let your love die on the vine Your blessed father and your blessed whore They're drunk again on the killing floor You know better than to try Man just wasn't meant to fly Time to raise up off your knees Prayers and wonders, worlds to see Tongue on the trigger Dive on the knife Days of wonder A beautiful life Beautiful violence Beautiful words We're floating backwards In a counter clock world Beautiful sorrow Beautiful sex Beautiful altars Beautiful wrecks And beautiful boys And beautiful girls We're floating backwards In a counter clock world In a counter clock world A counter clock world