Vertigo (if It's A Crime)

Big boat caught in my throat

It's the deck hand hitting the wrong notes

Came to with a pain in my gut again

I cut it open wide, took out a box

Inside the box there was a bee keeping time

Is it a crime to pass the blame

Every time the punishment is the same?

Life is a loose tooth leaving your mouth

So get it out, get it out

Dig that ditch, ditch that dirt it's just a body now

Pick me up so I can fall back down again

Descending into vertigo

If it's a crime they'll hang me every time

I tried to offer up a reason why

I tried, my dear to set things straight

I fear that I was too late to be cleared of the crime

I just missed a slap on the wrist

A key witness to the stand

The jury's out creeping about

And I am a guilty man

And the cyst is growing into this

So I drowned in the boat I choked down

And the captain remained proud

Looked down, seeing the ground getting closer to me

And now the ground is coming up my sleeves

Pick me up so I can fall back down again

Descending into vertigo

If it's a crime they'll hang me every time

I tried to offer up a reason why

I tried, my dear to set things straight

I fear that I was too late to be cleared of the crime

If it's a crime they'll hang me every time

I, I tried to set things straight

I fear that I was too late to be cleared of the crime