[00:35.28]What this night wants is what it gets,
[00:37.85]Strung in silken knots,
[00:39.92]Lit by cigarettes flaring side by side,
[00:46.56]With the streets all wet,
[00:49.07]As the only thing that's bright.
[00:52.24]And I don't need to cross that bridge.
[00:56.43]I find I'm swinging or sailing
[01:01.36]Over the pit tonight.
[01:05.92]I'm hanging from a hit
[01:09.77]Tonight was wild enough
[01:12.93]To order up and toss across my lips.
[01:20.24]
[01:26.37]What's making all my tears
[01:34.60]Is taking all my fears away.
[01:42.09]But I don't need to cry,
[01:49.37]Cause now I'm clear.
[01:58.50]
[02:11.76]A moth that's swerving through the sage.
[02:13.94]A creature crashing from a cage.
[02:16.67]A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray.
[02:23.71]A day she spends the night, and I can hear her sighing
[02:32.77]As she's almost asleep on one side,
[02:40.76]I lie back on my pillow and ask what her husband is like.
[02:55.73]
[03:11.35]And she says, "I smile polite,
[03:17.92]And I tip and tithe,
[03:19.96]And I see the sights with a well-trained eye.
[03:25.95]But I calmly cry,
[03:27.83]Cause I'm too much mine without him.
[03:33.35]I lie, reclined where the room is quiet,
[03:37.73]And it's quiet at night.
[03:39.64]The soft silk is fine
[03:41.74]And the waves are white,
[03:44.23]But the wind has died without him.
[03:49.99]And I scream my smiles,
[03:52.18]And I want my wires and I need my stripes.
[03:56.24]And I read the lines until I lid my eyes,
[04:00.79]And I'm losing time without him."
[04:05.41]And she says, "I ignite inside
[04:08.23]And I flash with fire
[04:10.82]And I limp from life
[04:12.91]And I'm blazing blind
[04:14.73]And I'm surging live
[04:16.94]I give up my mind
[04:22.84]When with him.
[04:26.57]
[04:28.76]And then every dream inside turns to flames,
[04:36.47]Fades to grey, and is dying.
[04:44.40]And the smoke rises into a white, blank, bare, broke-open sky."