Lady of the Ark, I think I found a part I think I found a piece of what you used to be Dozing in the back of a funeral car And tangled in the blankets of your memories
So why? Why did I waste you? If I had felt that love come the fall I couldn't save you Lunging to the earth, a sweetest cannonball
Oh why? Why did I know you? How did I know you would go in the end? Fell out of the sky, you told me Baby I'll be gone, but when I'm back again we'll try Try, try, try -
Lady of the Ark, I think you were the start I think you were the key with which his heart was closed Not his only secret, not his only weakness I found him at the party feeling through her clothes
And he cried, cried, \"I'm wasted\" And he couldn't look you straight in the mouth But all that time he'd take it Even though he didn't watch the words come out
Oh why? Why did you leave me? Why did you think it would rip me apart? When we always bleeding Inward towards the spirit where the soul departs the mind Mind, mind, mind -
And I can see your face now Dripping sick with your ear to the wall You can't find the way down, my lady My lady, 'til you fall So fall, fall -
A strange, prodigal woman, she can't see it coming Bats her eyes at everybody, one by one And though she's moving faster, still he's blowing past her Naked with his eye toward the morning sun
But you're wild! Wild, I've seen it And he left you sick when you loved him the most So now you're done, defeated Torn between the devil and the holy ghost
Swing low, low, sweet heathen Swing for the rich and the rock n' roll kids Roam this earth repeating All their sin until this wicked world makes sense in time Time, time, time -