A sliver of chalk the blue Lord knows I don't know what the the use of the midday moon You came to my arms too goddamn Lord knows I don't know to do with you and the midday moon
is just to say They've everything away Every we made fit into six trucks Pick-ups drawing above the driveway
The muddy cavalcade at half past eight Collecting in that grassy bank And trace of you was taken too And was once a womb is just a hollow room
It was a day That kind makes me hate L.A. 'Cause God gave them a sun And think gangs and smog were hardly a fair trade
They don't breathe or Or even blink at how the green will When the wind across the meager ridge And kicks the weeds a bit to make seem as if the lea is a sea of
say you can't cheat death Maybe it's just a shortness of Or no pains in your A we agree that we ain't cured yet
me dear I never thought that end up here ["sweet dreams"] whispered in your ear Before a long night's sleep so and clear
A of chalk across the blue Lord knows I don't know what the hell's the use of the midday You came to my arms too soon knows I don't know what to do with you and the midday moon
I've been told that when we die we pass onto the side there's no bright light, no light. is just a pasture gate that opens by lifting a plank To just more life, more life
I met an old man, sun-tanned, provided by And the light that passed through stain glassed He clutched a rosary flat to his And he wasn't ready for death
I seen an eyed firefly, femme fatale Too vain to explain how her fell out Lusting for the next to erase her shame She doesn't want to live forever, but she's scared to fade
This is how they came to me, one at a Pilgrims to my on the cemetery ground All they wanted was an answer and I could never let 'em I couldn't promise them forever but I could buy a lot of
You Jeanvieve, you the straw Whispering your wishes in cotton I wonder if the Maker ever felt he the flock But never had the mettle to make the world Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop,
[I wonder if the maker ever felt he botched the flockBut never had the mettle to make the stop] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop,
[I wonder if the maker ever he botched the flockBut never had the mettle to make the world stop] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop,
A of chalk across the blue Lord knows I don't what the hell's the use of the midday moon You came to my arms too goddamn Lord knows I don't what to do with you and the midday moon
A sliver of chalk across the Lord knows I know what the hell's the use of the midday moon You came to my arms too soon Lord knows I know what to do with you and the midday moon