"Behind The Sea" lyrics

"Behind The Sea"

A daydream spills from my corked head
Breaks free of my wooden neck
Left to nod over sleeping waves
Like bobbing bait for bathing cod
Floating flocks of candled swans
Slowly drift across wax ponds

The men all played along to marching drums
And, boy, did they have fun, behind the sea
They sang, (Hey!) so our matching legs are marching clocks
And we're all too small to talk to God
Yes, we're all too smart to talk to God

Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs
To us from the dock
Jinxed things ringing as they leak
Through tiny cracks in the boardwalk
Scarecrow, now it's time to hatch
Sprouting suns and ageless daughters

Don't you know, don't you know
That those watermelon smiles
Just can't ripen underwater?
Just can't ripen underwater?

The men all played along to marching drums
And, boy, did they have fun, behind the sea
They sang, (Hey!)
So our matching legs are marching clocks
And we're all too small to talk to God
Yeah, we're all too smart to talk to God
Oh, we're all too smart to talk to God

Oh, legs of wood waves
Waves of wooden legs (Yeah!)
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves
Waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves
Waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves
Waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs

So close...


Writer(s): Brendon Urie, Jonathan Walker, Spencer Smith, George Ross
This song was originally titled "Sushi in a Tuxedo, in the Clams Casino".
Ryan Ross said about this song in an interview with VH1, "I walked in one day and these guys were talking about the song and they said, 'Why don't you try to sing this?' I sang it because it was me and Jon song, I knew the song well. We did it and everyone thought it was cool. It's still one of the coolest songs on the album."
"Watermelon smiles" were explained by Brendon Urie in an interview with Coup de Main, "Yeah, we were doing a lot of drugs. We had to be on mushrooms when we wrote that, that was absolutely a mushroom lyric! When you're high, when you're on mushrooms, you look at other people and you look at yourself in the mirror, at least for me and all of us. We were just—the smile looks like half a watermelon. It's like a slice, and you're just like 'hnngggg', and your eyes are the size of the moon. We were just like, 'Whooooo!' Tripping out, it was crazy."
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