13th Floor Elevators Follow

But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through and it's all over now, baby blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky too is folding under you and it's all over now, baby blue

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies are all going home
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet too is moving under you and it's all over now, baby blue

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you've left they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew and it's all over now, baby blue

But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun crying like a fire in the sun