Dead Man Dancing

The rain takes pavement polaroids

Of every star

That gives me away

Imploding under running feet

Then rebuilding the sky

As I fall apart

And I know I should have kept my distance

Should have moved along

I hear the siren’s question

I hear how the city responds

And then I get the call

And listen to it all unravel

Woven tight

Repeated ’til it’s true

(Now) I’m waiting for it to unravel

One for cover, two for noise

It’s time to be gone

How did they find me here ?

I spin through streets and fire escapes

The city’s a mirror

The city’s a discotheque

And I know I didn’t have to listen

To that midnight song

I’m a dead man dancing

To the beat of a funeral drum

Crouched down in the alley

I hear a car door slam

And I could be fishing somewhere

With a wife and a pension plan

But I’m here instead

Pulling entropy’s threads til it all unravels

And somebody got in the way

Did I put them down ?

In this late transmission

This night on the town

The moon is a knot

And I’ve finally got it to all unravel