I'm Heading Out (Of My Mind) lyrics - Dan Bull

(Dredge Song)

Sunshine sinks down

The shadows grow longer

Everybody else in your house is aslumber

"But how can you slumber

Drowned in the somber

Assumptions they'll put upon you?"

Insomnia!

Is it any wonder your mind might wander

Out to the yonder and down to the wonders

Under the surface submerged subconscious

The pure blue sea's now a vile brown umber

While everyone else was deep asleep

Without a peep, at peace

You're doubtless deep beneath

Your outer shell

You freak, you creep

Surrounded, steeped in deep unease

You're bound to be bullied

Feeling a feeling not even found in the foulest fever dream

Our self-esteem depletes and we allow the leak to seep

Into the ground beneath our feet until our trousers need a clean

And only now you've been demeaned so well that hell's a sweet relief

You might as well release the beast

Turn the lights out now, turn the lights out

(I'm heading out of my mind)

Burn the lighthouse down, burn the lighthouse

(What fresh hell can I find?)

Now it's dark inside and it's dark out

(We're out of moonshine)

And I'm, I'm, I'm

Heading out of my mind

Deep down, down below the waves

I know a place, it's a dive, you can go behave

So depraved

Your welcomes never overstayed

It's forever open late

Lower your gaze at the abyss enough

And it'll show mermaids

Bioluminescent creatures with a kind of human essence

Features and expressions, too repressive to believe

There's some monsters squatting in your subconscious, bottled in

An obnoxious lockbox I've unlocked, just watch

I've got them hooked now come up

You can look but don't touch

(Shhh...)

Beneath the deep blue quiet

I'm trying out a sea food diet

Eaten each and every sea food

See, I didn't die yet

Am I out of my mind?

There's not a doubt in my mind

How the hell else could I rhyme so well without trying?

Sounds about right

"Proud of our pride like elderly lions

A fall is forecast"

Behind a prow without light

Your foremast will fall fast

Turn the lights out now, turn the lights out

(I'm heading out of my mind)

Burn the lighthouse down, burn the lighthouse

(What fresh hell can I find?)

Now it's dark inside and it's dark out

(We're out of moonshine)

And I'm, I'm, I'm

Heading out of my mind

Are you fishing for compliments?

Is it lifting your confidence?

Or is it a consequence of particularly difficult current events?

I can easily see you're a people pleaser

It's a form of defense

You're eager to please so please for once

Come off from on the fence

This is a ham-fisted attempt to prevent the strands

Twisting again

The hourglass is flipped

The sand's shifting again

Cast adrift, asterisk

That's the risk that if you catch a quick

Glance of a basilisk's business end

You'll never have that vision again

This is the stuff that's found in dusty dirty corners

Or that trawlers haul from under mucky murky waters

Best be cautious lest we cause a storm and call up deathly forces

And prematurely switch from rarely poor kids to corpses

Turn the lights out now, turn the lights out

(I'm heading out of my mind)

Burn the lighthouse down, burn the lighthouse

(What fresh hell can I find?)

Now it's dark inside and it's dark out

(We're out of moonshine)

And I'm, I'm, I'm

Heading out of my mind

I'm on a seaweed diet

I see weed, buy it

'Til I'm feeling high enough

To really fly

Up to the bleeding sky

And then I release ire

That's just me being vile, look

See, we dial up the vileness, nihilist

Gaslight anybody we sealion

Have you questioning your memories from three weeks prior

'Til you're knee deep mired in the freezing fire

Of a mind that isn't fine as if it's Tyson in his prime

With a tiger in his eye

The survivors will be dying

And if it's dark in the skies and if it's dark down there

If you're afraid of blood can a shark smell fear?

Turn the lights out now, turn the lights out

(I'm heading out of my mind)

Burn the lighthouse down, burn the lighthouse

(What fresh hell can I find?)

Now it's dark inside and it's dark out

(We're out of moonshine)

And I'm, I'm, I'm

Heading out of my mind

Sudden visions: hooded figures

Stood amid the bloody rivers

Your blubber quivers 'cause it's unequivocally vicious

Every colored fish is a chromatic aberration

An abomination straight from the book of revelations

It's quiet on the surface 'til the leviathan emerges

To remind us life is worthless if deprived of higher purpose

Kind of like a Bible verse cut up, divided by the merchants

Or the Viking heathens breaking immersion by breaking Mercians

While trading with they Byzantine Empire and Ancient Persians

"Wanna buy a perch?" I says

When a buyer purchases bile purges

As I alert you to vile urges of fire

Churches defiled virtues

Expired milk carton

Missing child searches

How atrocious

Listen to wild dirges

As your entire perfect life lurches

Dredging through drudgery and dread

Diverging as you dive urgently inside your fervent mind

You'll lie asleep in the seabed

Turn the lights out now, turn the lights out

(I'm heading out of my mind)

Burn the lighthouse down, burn the lighthouse

(What fresh hell can I find?)

Now it's dark inside and it's dark out

(We're out of moonshine)

And I'm, I'm, I'm

Heading out of my mind

Seaweed every day