Lyrics
Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea
Big black cloud was low and rolling our way
Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz-cut friends
Friend with a switch blade shining in the summer rain
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Dreaming again of a city full of fathers and their white clothes
Chattering boys and a chicken at the chopping block
All of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go
Didn't find the field but boy you're really waterlogged
Someone bet a dollar that their daddy wasn't coming home
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Dreaming again that it's freezing and my mother's in a flower bed
Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds
Changing her face like a shadow on the ground
This is what
No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Big black cloud was low and rolling our way
Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz-cut friends
Friend with a switch blade shining in the summer rain
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Dreaming again of a city full of fathers and their white clothes
Chattering boys and a chicken at the chopping block
All of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go
Didn't find the field but boy you're really waterlogged
Someone bet a dollar that their daddy wasn't coming home
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
Dreaming again that it's freezing and my mother's in a flower bed
Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds
Changing her face like a shadow on the ground
This is what
No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone
To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews