The night falls hard on sunken dreams.
The sorry splendor rots and gleams.
Patrons bark and angels jeer.
The band plays loud and they don't hear.
All they love is black and white.
Don't see the color of the light.
Lost their spirit and bled their souls.
With crimson shovels digging holes.
Oh you know I don't really wanna live in this strange world.
I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land.
I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times.
Don't tell me to hold out for a miracle.
I've been here for so long.
Somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue.
When you just want to fly away it's the sky blues.
Men and horses line the street.
Corrupted lives left incomplete.
Afraid of shadows on the wall.
Cast by the fingers of the tall.
Suits of power, white and black.
Bring velvet ruins on their backs.
And through the laughter and the moans.
It's just the thieves that feel at home.
Oh you know I don't really wanna live in this strange world.
I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land.
I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times.
Don't tell me to hold out for a miracle.
I've been here for so long.
Somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue.
When you just want to fly away it's the sky blues.
I need to get higher.
High above and far away.
Keep the clouds so dark and grey,
below me.
I need to get farther.
And find a place to start again.
To laugh at jokes and play pretend.
I wonder where you are.
I'm empty.
And floating like I'm deep in space.
Away from every kind of place,
come find me.
But sadly.
The feeling ends, I'm falling now.
I'm fading back into the crowd.
I've only come so far.
The band is tired, their throats are dry.
But still they play, I wonder why.
They see those shadows on the wall.
The cracks run deep as pieces fall.
Can we divine a better end.
And be a better kind of friend.
If not I doubt we shall survive.
I just want the truth to come alive.
And I sure don't really wanna live in this strange world.
I need somebody beside me to live in this strange land.
I need somebody to hide me away from these cruel times.
Don't tell me to hold out for a miracle.
I've been here for so long.
Somebody just come and take me where the skies are blue.
When you just want to fly away it's the sky blues.