Close your eyes and you draw one more day to a close You choose to be alone You float through your life as a ghost And everything heals given time And everything dies given time And the scars run together, mixing the nerves with the blood
And the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down And all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground When your heart's deep and dark as a well And everything that's golden and green goes to hell
And I was born to wind in the cradle And I ride on the hot southern breeze and I twist in the green and the gold and you see and there is blood on my elbows and knees
And people want to grow old in the cradle When there's snakes all around in the reeds And you ask me to fear of no evil When your fire's all over my feet
And the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down And all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground When your heart's deep and dark as a well And everything that's golden and green goes to hell
I said bring out your Vivian girls Bring out your cloud-covered girls and bring me a cup of your tears and give me the rest of your years
Because everything dies, given time And I know that this world could be mine So I closed both my eyes and I count my heartbeats and I know that my wings are on fire
And the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down And all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground When your heart's deep and dark as a well And everything that's golden and green goes to hell