(Philip Chevron / Darryl Hunt)
Alligators snap at your ankles
And branches snap at your brain

If I ever get through this swamp alive
I'll nevermore pray for rain


This must be the place, and still
Somehow it don't seem right
That something in the moon

Could change these endless days
To lonely nights


I take a stroll down by the sea
And walk along the pier
Then I slip and hit my head

Now's the time to fear

See the surface, see the rocks

See my past fly swiftly by
I feel the water in my lungs
And wake up screaming for my life


In my blue heaven
There's a bottle of Pontchetrain

Chalmette by moonlight
To take away the pain


Card sharks and blue harps
And dolphins who can leap
In my Blue Heaven

Where I can laugh
And I can weep


Black shapes zip into corners
The big lads start to crawl
To holes of their own making

In the cracks within the wall

Snakes and rats and spiders

I know that they're still there
I pray to God that I may sleep
Without a hope, without a care


In my blue heaven...


Felines and sea lions
And rain on the beach
In my Blue Heaven

With angels who are out of reach

In my blue heaven...


Nightingales sing
And the bells they will ring

In my Blue Heaven
The Bells of Hell
Go ding-a-ling-a-ling