Augie March - Watch Me Disappear Lyrics

This light doesn't hide in a bushel anymore
But I don't know what you could use it for
I've got the courage and I've got the same fear
So gather 'round now and watch me disappear

Been a smokey, been on fire
I'm on terms with immolation
Don't try to pull me from the pyre
It's too late for liberation

I wonder what I would've made of other features
Given all my kinds of appetite
Here my lords, come claiming up their leases
If I'm gonna move, I got to travel light

To the reaches, to the never, never
Anywhere where they can't find me
I'm invisible, I'm in hiding
All my troubles are left behind me

O my soul's a condiment, spread it far and wide
Little taste on a lot of tongue makes a body tired
It's a little like dousing a burning flag with a pail of oily water

I've studied brown and I've been known to gather wool
I won't refuse a little piece of sky pie
But when I see you with your beaker half full
I think I'm drinking with the wrong guy

Should I fly a coop? Will I swim the soup?
Will I make it through another year here?
I've been lonely before on that broken shore
There's no better place to up and disappear

O my soul's a condiment, spread it far and wide
Little taste on a lot of tongue makes a body tired
It's a little like dousing a burning flag with a pail of oily water
Said the flaming puddle

Daddys take it on the chin, there's no need to fight
Mothers hem the brood and gather in, here comes the night
You might step outside of the stream, fall through the hole
Be far from all that living set you forth to do

Xanadu now, Babylonia, anywhere where nobody owns ya
An Elysian acre, Arcadia, it's alright to disappear, yeah