[00:07.86]Abandoned by all her admirers,
[00:14.79]Wild White Shadow Waltz
[00:20.92]Stands alone on a stair down the hall,
[00:27.78]Just one slip from a trip and a fall.
[00:35.10]In a cold morning, holding her lighter,
[00:42.06]Wan White Shadow Waltz
[00:48.66]
[00:49.72]Stirs, sputters, and stalls.
[00:57.09]Then wakes, wavers and walks
[01:01.47]Right through her prison walls.
[01:08.35]She says, "The doorbell is ringing.
[01:12.85]Go see who it is.
[01:19.17]Our little island's sinking into mist..."
[01:30.62]
[01:32.18]A day came. A night went. It lightened.
[01:38.06]An animal broke his way out,
[01:42.50]Moped through a scattering crowd,
[01:52.69]And crawled back to his circus shell.
[01:58.63]
[02:00.25]And circling the zoo's screaming clients
[02:05.93]
[02:07.11]Was White Shadow Waltz,
[02:14.80]Deaf to their torn breaths and calls.
[02:21.35]Wait, take a look closer... he's hardly moving at all.
[02:31.67]
[02:37.44]She says, "Someone is knocking,
[02:44.63]Go see who it is.
[02:51.06]Our little world is shaking...
[02:53.50]
[02:56.79]I guess our little world is breaking..."
[03:00.99]
[03:02.93]In the presence of all our despisers
[03:10.59]We'll falter and crawl to our bed.
[03:16.91]
[03:17.85]The world is a black shadow bled.
[03:24.41]And what is this tune in my head?
[03:30.63]She says:
[03:31.94]"It's just the white wind when it whimpers."
[03:39.31]"It's just the black rain when it squalls."
[03:45.52]"It's just white meat whistling a waltz."
[03:49.72]
[03:52.77]"It's just nine hands wiping a white shadow off of the walls."