His father died and left him a little farm in New England   All the long black funeral cars left the scene   And the boy was just standin' there alone   Lookin' at the shiny red tractor   Him and his daddy used to sit inside   And circle the blue fields and grease the night      It was as if someone had spread butter   On all the fine points of the stars   'Cause when he looked up, they started to slip   Then he put his head in the crux of his arms      And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship   Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it   And saw his daddy 'hind the control boards   Streamin' beads of light   He saw his daddy 'hind the control board   And he was very different tonight   'Cause he was not human, he was not human      The little boy's face lit up with such a naked joy   That the sun burned around his lids   And his eyes were like two suns   White lids, white opals, seein' everything   Just a little bit too clearly      And he looked around and   There was no black ship in sight   No black funeral cars, nothin'   Except for him, the raven   And fell on his knees and   Looked up and cried out      "No, Daddy, don't leave me here alone   Take me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship   Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it   Where you are not human, you are not human"      But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm   Nobody there 'cept for the birds   Around the New England farm   And they gathered in all directions   Like roses they scattered      And they were like compass grass   Coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet   Slit in his nose and all the others went shootin'   And he saw the lights of traffic beckonin' him   Like the hands of blake   Grabbin' at his cheeks, takin' out his neck   All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said      ?I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up   I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast   Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship"   And the ship slides open and I go inside of it   Where I am not human      I am helium raven and this movie is mine   So he cried out as he stretched the sky   Pushin' it all out like latex cartoon   Am I all alone in this generation?   We'll just be dreamin' of animation night and day   And won't let up, won't let up and I see them comin' in   Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now      It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights   Movin' in like black ships, they were movin' in, streams of them   And he put up his hands and he said, ?It's me, it's me   I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up   I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, please take me up   Don't leave me here"      The son, the sign, the cross   Like the shape of a tortured woman   The true shape of a tortured woman   The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her sons   No longer presidents but prophets   They're all dreamin', they're gonna bear the prophet      He's gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation   It's all gonna split his skull   It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin'   Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up   Like light, like Mohammed boxer      Take them up up up up up up   Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me back   Take me up, I'll go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up   Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, tell   Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up   Up, up, to the belly of a ship   Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it   Well, we are not human, we're not human      Well, there was sand, there were tiles   The sun had melted the sand   And it coagulated like a river of glass   When it hardened, he looked at the surface   He saw his face and where there were eyes   Were just two white opals, two white opals      Where there were eyes, there were just two white opals   He looked up and the rays shot   And he saw raven comin' in   And he crawled on his back and he went up   Up up up up up up      Sha da do wop, da sha da do way   Sha da do wop, da sha da do way   Sha da do wop, da sha da do way   Sha da do wop, da sha da do way   Shaman do wop, da shaman do way   We like birdland