The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) [2021 Remaster]

[00:08.76] I want to tell you 'bout Texas radio and the big beat [00:17.00] Comes out of the Virginia swamps [00:18.97] Cool and slow with plenty of precision [00:22.10] With a back beat narrow and hard to master [00:32.10] Some call it heavenly in its brilliance [00:36.17] Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream [00:39.49] I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft [00:45.27] We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping [00:49.53] This is the land where the Pharaoh died [01:13.73] The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered [01:17.08] They are saying, "forget the night [01:20.17] Live with us in forests of azure [01:23.55] Out here on the perimeter there are no stars [01:27.57] Out here we is stoned, immaculate" [01:32.52] Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache [01:36.87] I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God [01:41.09] I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night [01:42.97] The meager food for souls forgot [01:44.95] I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul [01:53.54] I'll tell you this [01:54.54] No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn [02:46.01] I'll tell you 'bout Texas radio and the Big Beat [02:50.28] Soft, driven, slow and mad, like some new language [03:54.04] Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas [03:58.10] I'll tell you 'bout the Texas radio [04:01.94] I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night [04:04.18] Wandering the Western dream [04:06.31] Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul [04:10.07]