MERCURY REV – Holes

From Deserter’s Songs (1998)

Movie: Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon) is a 1956 fantasy short film directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. The thirty-four minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris, France It won numerous awards, including an Oscar for Lamorisse for writing the best original screenplay in 1956 and the Palme d’Or for short films at Cannes. The film also became popular with children and educators. Lamorisse used his children as actors in the film. His son, Pascal Lamorisse, plays Pascal in the main role, and his daughter Sabine portrays a little girl.

Time, all the long red lines, that take Control, of all the smoke like streams that flow into your Dreams, that big blue open sea, that can’t be Crossed, that can’t be climbed, just born Between, oh the two white lines, distant gods an’ faded Signs, of all those blinking lights, you had t’ pick the one tonight

Holes, dug by little moles, angry jealous Spies, got telephones for eyes, come to you as Friends, all those endless ends, that can’t be Tied, oh they make me laugh, an’ always make me Cry, til they drop like flies, an’ sink like polished Stones, of all the stones i throw, how does that old song go how does that old song go.

Bands, those funny little plans, that never work quite right.