Song for Ted Sallis

Song for Ted Sallis
Album	Hex of Infinite Binding EP
Released	September 7, 2018
Length	3:31
Next Track	"Almost Every Door"

Song for Ted Sallis is the first song on the Hex of Infinite Binding EP.

Lyrics

Into the source of the squall
I inevitably fall
Toward the wellspring of all agony
Shuffling endlessly
Whether or not it was always going to be this way
It only mattered yesterday

No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in

Up from the earth and the clay
Melting away
Never lose enough to find my form
Trudge through the storm
Wait in hope
For some as yet undiscovered isotope

No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in

When at last
The die gets cast
Read the numbers out loud
With your head bowed

Try to find a face to focus on
But the memory's gone
Wherever my former self went
It was an accident
Try to picture him in my mind's eye
Say goodbye

No skin like the skin you woke up in
No skin like the skin you woke up in

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song

• "Whatsoever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch. The Man-Thing was once a scientist named Ted Sallis. Ted Sallis, uh, like, like the main figure of our previous song, uh, messed around in the lab too much, and as often happens, I mean, more times than we can really count, you know, you'll be doing some science and then you become like a gigantic eight-foot-tall swamp monster. This is called 'Song for Ted Sallis'." -- 2020-02-21 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA

Things Referenced in this Song

• Dr. Theodore "Ted" Sallis, a.k.a. Man-Thing, is a Marvel Comics character.

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

• 2020-02-21 - Swedish American Hall - San Francisco, CA