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