Blue Heaven Lyrics

(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                                                               
There's a bottle of Pontchetrain                                                
Chalmette by moonlight                                                          
To take away the pain                                                           
                                                                                
Felines and sea lions                                                           
And rain on the beach                                                           
In my Blue Heaven                                                               
With angels who are out of reach                                                
                                                                                
In my blue heaven                                                               
There's a bottle of Pontchetrain                                                
Chalmette by moonlight                                                          
To take away the pain                                                           
                                                                                
Nightingales sing                                                               
And the bells they will ring                                                    
In my Blue Heaven                                                               
The Bells of Hell                                                               
Go ding-a-ling-a-ling