In the heat of the night grown men flee to the light Sundial runs wild six degrees of its life Let’s agree that I’m right-wrong turns came with believin’ the hype Breathe in the spite-we are not welcome to the evening tonight
A season of flight proceeded sparrows in the park Survival’s narrow as the art of placing arrows in the heart Scarecrow needs a spark so you can watch him burn for miles Beggar learning to smile but now he only turns a dial
Lurching down the aisle comes the hearse with persons filed Spirits cast their bones at the lonely mercantile The holy serpent child smudges ashes ‘tween their eyes Savage leaves their cries as unraveling arrives
Someone yelled ‘drop’ all you heard was the police cars sing The moon is full, the night is starving Pulse of the city spits fire but the arteries are hardening The moon is full, the night is starving Walls come tumbling down from the rebels in the street marching The moon is full, the night is starving Pride plays a lullaby on broken guitar strings The moon is full, the night is starving
Hanging next to the sneakers on the telephone wire Lives the ‘come over tonight’ preachers and the ‘leave me the hell alone’ choir Expel the known prior and expect the worst prob’ly I’d sell my soul higher but at best the curse caught me
Accept the first offering, it’s a sign of things to come The vinyl’s pleased it spun but in the final scene we’re sunk Sideshow freaks become masters of ceremony The chief’s been bound n’ gagged and the pastor wears a nosebleed
Disaster shares a trophy with the actor starin’ lonely Blackbirds rain like laughter, here’s the password: There, you know me Ghost dancers in the hail storm with hands in heaven Bullets pierced their flesh but the spilled blood planted legends
Got red state blues, got black hills under my heels 50 stars salute one fallen sky concealed A little white lie got some black face in its eye Now it crawls and it castrates in that rat race in the sky
Someone yelled ‘drop’ all you heard was the police cars sing The moon is full, the night is starving Pulse of the city spits fire but the arteries are hardening The moon is full, the night is starving Walls come tumbling down from the rebels in the street marching The moon is full, the night is starving Pride plays a lullaby on broken guitar strings The moon is full, the night is starving