take a stroll through the metal trees and through the dying streets if you please because we all feel sick, we're all diseased breathing dirty air, coughing
When they've got too many guns My son, you've got to run When you've stopped feeling guilt You'll know the time has come The pebble to Goliath Has become
a long time before radio, television or film in days when most people could not read or write wandering storytellers brought the news in verse and rhyme
Face cast down, she's bound, she's tethered Her tangled tresses wind rivulets in the mud And my staggering footsteps tunnel southward Her scarlet dress
watch out! the sky is falling! i said watch out! meteroids asteroids falling stars flying cars are falling on your head watch out! the sky is falling
Down we go with rusted tools We dig with fingers crossed And through our hands reach deeper still Our lungs in shallow air lie caught In wee hours the
The dirt is on our hands And sober thought demands Paced shuffling of our spades Oh how often should we play We don't care what their spirits say What
A toast to those that together we deceived We've come so far and you'd be better believe I still got a trick or two up my sleeve You gotta lose the noose
And so we on our tiptoes creep Down the alleys, beneath the streets Past the trash and past the silt Past the canal which our hands built On our backs
Listen close though my words won't bode well Many a rumor's found my ear (Do tell, do tell, do tell) The watchmen caught word that murder's been afoot
The body's been sold dissected and disposed And the silver of Judas served us up cold Cold meals and warm whiskeys yeah There's nothing else worth wanting
first cohort of the ninth storms on gone for three thousand nights and dawns paving new roads rome marches on past the brunettes and the blondes never