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Across the plateau no clouds storm the sky, |
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Above the riverbed the world's run dry, |
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I beat the air, for those who hear, |
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And through the night my call goes out unheard, |
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I cry for company and get no word, |
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The silent groan, God only knows, |
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I stand alone. |
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The wind devides the empty shells below, |
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Deep in the valley night begins to grow, |
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The memory, the best of me, |
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From out the shadows something takes my hand, |
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To lead me homeward through a foreign land, |
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The silence grown, the palest eyes, |
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I'm the only one. |
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A mother's son, a father's pride, |
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How can I run and where to hide? |
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I close my eyes and hope tonight, |
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My healing flesh will be all right; |
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A baby cries, another ghost, |
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A different side to claim the most, |
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My blood gone black and down to dust, |
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So save my soul or let me die, |
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I'm still alive. |
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I'm on the other side, |
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Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed, |
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No wonder I feel nervous, |
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Lord, they don't deserve us anyway. |
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I want to burn these wings, |
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You can see how it's happening, |
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Still they're telling me to smack the enemy, |
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It's killing time! |
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I should have known before, |
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Only bad's half as good as dead, |
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I can't go any faster, stuck like alabaster, |
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White as I know. |
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We stand in lines of old, staying cold, |
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Swallow all the anger, |
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Releases get away, coming down, |
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Across the fields of amber, |
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To the water, ocean far below. |
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As the mirror to the sun, |
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The colour of the evening, never let go, |
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Hold my stomach, keep it tight, |
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They're pulling out the breathing, let it go; |
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If you ever change your mind, |
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Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me, |
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With all the hopes and fears combined, |
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It's hard to care for living anymore, |
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I wouldn't let you down again. |
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Inspired by hunger, fired by lust, |
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I sold the children's faces, painted gold, |
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Something moving taking hold, |
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Is gathering but never growing old, |
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I did everything I could just to say, |
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Believe me, you're not alone, |
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But with the winter in my bones, |
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Oh what else can I do now? |
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It's only me, |
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I wouldn't let you down again. |
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Break back to back lately, |
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Oh and how they moved when I was |
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Younger than this, |
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Get my spirit caught beneath the surface, |
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SDee me play dead today, |
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I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums, |
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Armies of priests |
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All come to practice their party pieces, |
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Pounding like metal from side to side, |
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To shoot, to save, |
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And risk that horizon, |
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No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed, |
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Safe in our stillness, |
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At last we see him rise from out the earth. |
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I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred, |
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Lost my condition from the perfect star, |
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I caught the fire, can't help but see, |
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There's none to carry on. |
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I knew these plains before the world was mine, |
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With no escape in mind, I'll be resigned, |
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Inside alone, I know for sure, |
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The future's all gone |
