My will goes cold, like a satellite Marooned on a long forgotten world Damn my eyes, I was mesmerized As I watched the road to nowhere unfurl I dreamed you upon me beneath that old moon And a dirty tepid wind whistled an undertaker's tune Out in the valley, past the burning trees My soul like the ash of crickets, falling to their knees
Somewhere out in the dark, pass the walnut orchards And the barroom abattoirs Somewhere into the blue, I can almost see your smile Fading from my view
I staggered like a crow into the empire Where the floating seeds of star thistles twirl I weaved the leaning poles and old telephone wires Like dusty notes of music, at the far end of the world I dream of radiation, a zeppelin balloon A nuclear winter, a bonny spring monsoon Beyond the splitting atoms Past the ruined sea My soul like the test site flowers burning in the breeze
Somewhere out in the dark, pass the walnut orchards And the barroom abattoir Somewhere into the blue, I can almost see your smile Fading from my view Somewhere out in the dark, pass the walnut orchards And the barroom abattoir Somewhere into the blue, I can almost see your smile Fading from my view Somewhere out in the dark, pass the walnut orchards And the barroom abattoir Somewhere into the blue, I can almost see your smile Fading from my view
I call you... I call out to you... I call you...I call out to you... Only coyotes sang when I called out your name Only cold wicked rain when I called out your name... When I called out your name!