The City Is Hungry Lyrics

I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're not even here On the c...Read Full Lyrics

All day the mountains rose behind a veil of smoke from burning fields And road dust dyeing black skin bronze and the road rolling like a rough sea It's quiet now, just crickets and...Read Full Lyrics

You knelt on the carpet, crimson and stained Light trickled over your black dress like rain Your lips were hot and my shocked heart screamed And I can't scrape my eyes free of this...Read Full Lyrics

Crossed the border laughing Never know what to expect They wanted to know what church I'm in And what things I collect They're trying to plug holes in the hull While flames eat up...Read Full Lyrics

Shaman clambers up the world dream tree Looking for clues about what is to be Chants and trances give his spirit wings for flight Wings still shackled to history The chain of event...Read Full Lyrics

There's a broad river winding Through this African lowland The moon is held up orange and big See it raise its hands And the last ferry's pulling out With no place left to stand Fo...Read Full Lyrics

Isn't it hard To be the one who has to give advice? Isn't it hard To be the strong one? I see the skyline blurred through the plastic on your back screen door Not unlike the faces...Read Full Lyrics

They turned their backs I made it too hard Every place they touched me Is a laceration now Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere And knocks you off your feet And look, see my tear...Read Full Lyrics

Everything's broken in the birthplace of law As Generation Two tries on his tragic flaw America's might under desert sun I saw her frightened eyes behind the muzzle of her gun Ura...Read Full Lyrics

Rising like light spill from this sleeping town Like the light in a lover's eyes Rising from the hearts of the sleepers all around All those dreamers trying to light the sky Burni...Read Full Lyrics