Memory Palace (feat. Ezra Koenig)

Steam coming from a manhole
And tall blue stacks
Like an apparition it blurs
The full frontal attack
The gold in your bank came from
An ancient blast
Need a fortress for protection
Against a long slow-fading past

I'm building my memory palace
Shadowy prisms of long-forgotten shapes
Prime numbers I'm running in sequence
Behind the eyes, mnemonic aids
My memory palace

Blank stare but I swear I'm all there
Someone home?
Is that what I look like? Ha ha
Well, I guess that's so
I laugh but I worry about worry about
Can I make it through?
Make my time a solitude
Work so that my recall is true

I'm building my memory palace
Shadowy prisms of long-forgotten shapes
Fibonacci numbers in sequence
Behind the eyes, mnemonic aids
My memory palace

I'm trying to remember it all
Waking dreams, clean and chased
Sequences of a fortress against the fading
Memory palace