On a cold wet afternoon In a room full of emptiness By a freeway I confess I was lost in the pages Of a book full of death Reading how we'll die alone
Well, I've been watching While you've been coughing I've been drinking life While you've been nauseous And so I drink to health While you kill yourself
Pearls and swine, bereft of me Long and weary, my road has been I was lost in the cities alone in the hills No sorrow or pity for leaving I feel, yeah
And with the early dawn Moving right along I couldn't buy and eyeful of sleep And in the aching night under satellites I was not received Built with stolen
I walk the streets of Japan till I get lost ?Cause it doesn't remind me of anything With a graveyard tan carrying a cross ?Cause it doesn't remind me
Once upon a time I was of the mind To lay your burden down Leave you where you stood You believed I could You'd seen it done before I could read your
Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone Someone kills the pain, spinning in the silence To finally drift away Someone gets excited In a chapel yard
Oooooooooooh Oooooooooooh Oooooooooooh Oooooooooooh Long days and nights you fought for truth Gotta hand it to you Uprise and paid for in blood Only
Listen now, let me speak I will be the dog at your feet And come along when you call Be the little bird in your straw and sing you a song I'll be there
When I first came to this island That I called by my own name I was happy in this fortress In my exile I remained But the hours grew so empty And the
Listen now and let me speak I will be the dog at your feet Come along when you call Be the little bird in your straw And sing you a song I'll be there
The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on The original fire has
Anchor the night, open the sky Hide in the hours before sunrise Pray for me not, I won't lose sight Of where I belong and where you lie Well, Heaven'
I've got a will this time, I don't care what you say I've got a feeling this will all go away It's in the wind this time, it's in the southern sky I can
Beauty is what eyes behold And you burn brighter than most I chased you through the midnight streets To be where I could speak freely I didn't care what
You know what to do, you know what I did Since you know everything, just clue me in I am such a wreck, I am such a mess I know what I know, why don't
Well if you set your mind upon it I know that you can You've got everything you wanted You've done everything you planned So let me make an offer I'm
