Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'The Feelers' - It was an early morning meet-up at the mansion up the mountain / The Maestro still had glitter on his face / They led us to the office and once my eyes adjusted / I took a little look around the place / On the mantle was a portrait of his father and the fortune / He'd amassed from being ruthless but polite / And a bottle with a model, a specific British clipper ship / On his desk there was a pistol and a pipe / The sunrise wasn't perfect but it was close enough to count / The vibrations were impatient he said he's sick of running out / But first we set the prices and then we talk about amounts / The sweet parade the morning brings / The drifters wearing angel wings / The hard distorted hymns they sing / So sad the night is over / The shepherds started spinning out / The cowboys trying to dismount / St. Francis with the pigeons on his shoulder / Now while you're here in person I was kind of, sort of hoping / I could ask you 'bout a girl I met last night / She had the aura of an angel / But she had a couple problems / I guess the big one is she's someone else's wife / And she didn't bring it up with any sort of plan in place / She said she was just putting out the feelers / When she asked if she could choke you / Underneath the blacklight poster / With a spaceman saying, 'Take me to your dealer' / This scene, it only moves at a few different speeds / Forage and gather, attack and retreat / First we're gonna finish up our business / Then we'll finally get some sleep. / All the things you never really noticed before / Turned out that they don't even matter. / 'Cause when someone hits the switch in the kitchen / All the insects just scatter / The broken birds all headed south / The pirates with the party mouth / The corner boys all calling out / So sad the war is finished / Each daybreak there's a new parade / From uptown through the old arcades / Along the way we lost the flame / But there's burners in the kitchen / We've been staying late a lot / That mansion on the mountaintop / Did you think about the thing The Maestro mentioned? / How tomorrow's pretty much today / And I don't predict a major change / Seems like you and me have got momentum / Feels like now we're in this pretty deep / We should get set up before we sleep / Feels like now we're in this pretty deep / We should get set up before we sleep