I’ve songs of promise for your tongue and ropes and ladders to the sun and heaven knows they’ll come undone
One day we’ll drop our mourning clothes and build our fortunes on the snow and fashion statues made of gold
It doesn’t follow, the news I heard You kept them staring anywhere but down Am I the only thing that calls you, calls you? You’ve got’em swinging from every word you’ve thrown upon a ladder, high and proud Is that the only thing that calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you?
We plot our courses from a grave and pick the flowers where we lay and heaven knows they’re out of place
We’re only left to stop and stare at faces old and faces new It must be something in the air that makes them look the way they do
We'll watch them limp into a run Let's you and i have all the fun We'll drive them out before we're done, we're done, we're done, we're done, we're done, we're done, we're done, we're done
Oh, I've seen their shape before It's fitting that they take a quiet form I'm not the only thing that calls you, calls you And nothing draws the blood-- no, draws the blood so like a half-closed door, and it's the only thing that calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you, calls you