What Is Quicksand?

What Is Quicksand?

Artist	Stalk-Forrest Group
Album	St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings
Released	April 23, 2001 (Stalk-Forrest Group) June 26, 2001 (Soft White Underbelly)
Length	3:19 (Stalk-Forrest Group) 3:40 (Soft White Underbelly)
Writers	Richard Meltzer Allen Lanier
Lead vocals	Eric Bloom

What Is Quicksand? is a song by Stalk-Forrest Group, released on the compilation album St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings. A demo version of this song, recorded as Soft White Underbelly for an earlier session with Columbia Records, was released on the 2001 reissue of Blue Öyster Cult.

Lyrics

Well, right now in Tokyo
Only place I am
When my blisters are immersed
In fresh-as-fresh tin can

I've often talked about
How the cretins span the world
In the time that I've known you
I've yet to have shown you
A moron with his snarl unfurled

But right back in Tokyo
With a tough, encircled hand
Thousand vulture smokey-o
Cigareet with a seegar band

I've always talked about
How to carve up daddy's boat
In the space of a half-year
We've yet to embark, my dear
To another shallow side of the moat

Well, right now in Tokyo
Only place I am
When my blisters are immersed
In fresh-as-fresh tin can

I've always talked about
How the cretins span the world
In the time that I've known you
I've yet to have shown you
A moron with his snarl unfurled

But right back in Tokyo
With a tough, encircled hand
Thousand vulture smokey-o
Cigareet with a seegar band

I've never talked about
How to carve up daddy's boat
In the space of a half-year
We've yet to embark, my dear

To another shallow side of the moat

Trivia

• The original demo's lyrics differ slightly from the final version's at the start of each chorus, with "often" and "always" replaced by "always" and "never", respectively.