Every day, the same record plays in the hollows of my bones
A holy ghost, grown so desperate for a song that’s not my own
Now listen fast – this ain’t gonna last – let me take you far from here
I don’t want none of your alibis – just a sympathetic ear
I don’t like this staying up at night but I just need some time alone
Secret things keep landing on my strings before they leave to fly back home
And this won’t justify on the page
And it ain’t waiting ‘round for the break of day.
Candlelight, strange candlelight, falling on an ancient throne
A treasure-hunting amazon, trying to move my cover stone
Can’t you leave just one mystery when you climb into that dawn?
Have mercy on all these memories – kingdoms come and kingdoms gone
Flame so bright, what troubles can you right, when I am burned and turned to breeze?
I would bury the sun inside a loaded gun just to have some guarantees
And I’m just trying to get a rise
So don’t you look at me with my mother’s eyes.
He used to work for money
He used to sleep for rest
And he believed in believing to hide his shy regrets
And every crying schoolboy, so allergic to the dust
He would shower on his heart till the blood began to rust
It’s so easy standing straight now, with a hollow in my chest
And by thoughts cannot be broken, and your words do not impress
And you’re just an animal – a parakeet in a cage,
And if you sing to me of love, it’s just that you’re well-trained.
Well, each day I wake to find a cleaner slate that I’m told to fill again
And I’ll never meet that man that I replace, but I hope that I can call him a friend.
You call this craziness just a poem –
‘Cause there is nothing within you that you don’t already know.