I Started Painting Landscapes

They had this rehearsal room in one of the archways near the train station They're demolished now, so I can't say for sure exactly what it was But every fifteen minutes, a train would pass overhead Remember that for sure The whole room would shake with this industrial noise You can hear it on the early recordings They said it added to the ambience I always remembered they had this landscape painting on the wall That seemed incongruous But when I would go to rehearsal to hang out, there was always this impromptu audience People skulking around, drinking and smoking while they played And I would sit and stare at it, this forest scene It was like I was imagining myself entering it It was as if the music had made it open up You know, like, it was alive? This was only me probably, but I would go wandering through the trees and the bushes along this path It was always confused, like, it wasn't really happening But I wasn't imagining it either There was like a portal, you know? Does that sound crazy? And I never asked them about it I kept it secret because I felt like I had discovered the real reason why they'd hung it there It wasn't out of poor taste or ill advice, it was there to get inside I can still see that path in my head right now Patty would be playing this one chord on the guitar and he would keep on repeating it And Richard was playing this mechanical rhythm in the drums And Remy would be alternating between these two notes in the bass And Lucas would step up to sing He was so handsome back then These thick lips, like, Bambi eyes This long fringe He'd step up to sing and his lyrics would be Like, about one thing at a time, you know, like Thinking something and then seeing something and then doing something One thing would happen after the next Like uh, an automatic voice that was played out without any personal volition I mean, of course, they had that song, "Adherence," that song would keep going forever Sometimes I would listen to it and and I would think, "Oh, my god" "Everything is fixed, that path through the forest is real" Mad stuff like that