Lets call this the quiet city where screams are felt as the waves of the stoplights Drive throught the streets as gunshots punctuate the night The sides we take divide us from our faith and the morning dove gets caught in the telephone wire
Asleep you set the fire in your own house and the night was a knife the cut and I'm paralyzed
Cross out the eyes, blur all the lines Tearing this canvas from the wall Cross out the eyes, put lines through these crys Pulled all the leaves from the trees that fall
Yeah trees that fall, trees that fall, trees that fall, fall
The silent dance that we did Into the hospital bed Voices from another room "It happens all the time" But July and the sand The leaves fall and Counting down the days to live Drain the blood from this valentine
We can rise on the wings of the dove Sea blue skys getting caught in the trail of all this smoke We can rise like candles in the dark Yours always and the memo marked with your new address
Asleep you set the fire in your own house And the night was a knife that cut And I'm paralyzed
Cross out the eyes, blur all the lines Tearing this canvas from the wall Cross out the eyes, put lines through these crys Pulled all the leaves from the trees that fall
Cross out the eyes, blur all the lines, lines Cross out the eyes, blur all the lines, crys The eyes, cross, the eyes cross
It was the first time face to face Crossing the line talking to the other side of death Hearing the words that choke memorie into flatlines Calling your name, hoping for something to wash these dreams of you away
Til we die, memories and flatlines Cross out the eyes til we set off these lines Cross out the eyes til we set off these lines Cross out the eyes
Our fence was blown down in a winter storm in this field (Cross out the eyes) Stretches out of this world into the sound (A trace of) What can we do the put a stop the the coming white days (A love song) I'm hoping for something to wash these dreams of you away