And now the wolves are howling at our door
Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine
And in that clear blue undertow
They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found
Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup
The sun a shout the breeze a sigh
Days are nights and the nights are long
I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew
And ever since he's been a-walking away
Wrapped up in a royal blue
The old hometown and the streets I knew
I see an old man wandering the halls alone
And like good tragedy that's what we expect
Streets a-swimming with amputees
Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round
And I became a thin blue stream
His winding sheet is busy winding up
If God's up there he's in a cold dark room
At night I make plans for a city laid down
Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs
But you need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find
It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart
I heard my friends laughing out across the fields
Heaven's just a thin blue line
He bent down and made the world in seven days
The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem
The world just beginning and the guests in good cheer
And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right
But only a full house gonna make a home
Halcyon, laudanum and Opium
In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed
Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage
It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die
Borders soft with refugees
The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts
And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign
All my followers
Only a full house gonna make it through
The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees
They were coming together they pulling apart
I woke beneath a clear blue sky
And so it was I saw behind
I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above
The prince of Denmark's father still and quiet
And over hills and fields I flew
Singing 'bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord
Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up
In Royal City I fell into a trance
And angels everywhere were in my midst
It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart
The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night
Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds
Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance
Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage
Wrapped up in a royal blue
A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land
Lead pellets peppering aluminum
Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground
To float like the smoke from a lithium dream
Streets named for heroes that could almost exist
Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script
So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air
And the whole world was looking to get drowned
That held the world above the fire
Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes
And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck
I became a thin blue wire
The weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless
A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon's light
Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please
Only a full house gonna have a prayer
If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high
Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares
Caesar's ghost I saw the war-time tides
And the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand
I saw Royal City far below
Cicadas electric in the heat of the day
The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay
And the future glass buildings and the past an address
In darkness he looks for the light that has died
The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons
Where neither seraphin or raindrops go
The smoke between asleep and dreams
The future descending like a bright chandelier
The young women walking in the portals of prayer
I flew over Royal City last night
The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel
