Quiet Americans Lyrics

You were lying on your back in the grassCounting backward from a thousandTo cool the rush of blood in your veinsAnd the pressure of everyone, everyone, everyone, everyoneWhen I bel...Read Full Lyrics

Shuddering brakes on the road to JerusalemIt's so easy to drift when your eyes are so tiredAnd in the rush to the scene you are one of the millionsIn a dirty old town that some kil...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, when you whistle down the windWhen you needle the dark with your mindWhen you're firing volleys of words in an arcWhen you're snuffing out all that's still aliveAnd a droplet f...Read Full Lyrics

The night is like a black stoneBut it ripples in the windAnd you are shaking like a new slaveIn an ultraviolet sunShiver at the night skyFrom the ribbon of the road:Hollow little d...Read Full Lyrics

Summer's bloodBreaks a winter's composureAnd I'm in love with your daughtersI'm in love with your sonsAnd a flush of rainFloods the banks of all reasonTurns your memory goldenAnd i...Read Full Lyrics

Your mother's milkYour father's angerThe razor wire surrounding himAnd far belowTheir droning enginesYou lay in bedBlowing out starsThe masters ofYour lonely kingdomPulled you alon...Read Full Lyrics

West of the fieldsOr out on the lamRiding a calm between ragesAnchored in rustErasing the wildernessChasing an alien feelingAre you suddenly blind?Come on, miracle child, come home...Read Full Lyrics

Back beforeBack in our school daysYou were wild-eyedBefore the damage was doneYou tasted that fear in your mouth on SundaysBut you knowYou know it's not livingWhen the wildfiresWer...Read Full Lyrics

Sliver of sundown, glimmer of daylightRunning in place with trembling kneesVision of lightning, vision of sunriseOverlay worlds on the grid of our dreamsAnd knock 'em all downWith ...Read Full Lyrics

What can I tell you?I wasn't anyone's sonI jumped over mountainsI vaulted the islandsI roared through the housesI skimmed on the oceans, aloneAnd see only outlinesI was the last ki...Read Full Lyrics