It's a worthless lie to the public eye
I don't take waifs and strays back home with me
Yes, I'd have to say I like my privacy
And in the morning when I find I have lost you
I look with you into the speeding black rain
Blowing out the fuse paying all your dues
My bleeding heart does not extend to charity
So smile at me
Kicking down the door at your local store
The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer
Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name
With the cancer threat in a cigarette
With the world at war voices through the floor
On a beach somewhere and the poison air
It rifled through the gray and disappeared
Sucking in the air wire across the stair
Deadwing lullaby find a place to hide
And from the yellow windows of the last train
Unexpected news wearing high heeled shoes
And did you know you're on closed circuit TV?
And a dream you had of your mum and dad
Like a cancer scare in the dentist's chair
Deadwing lullaby like a fracture tied
A specter from the next life breathes his fog on the pane
