The Night Watch (Single Edit)

Oh sweetheart

I miss you tonight

The carriage is full

But I'm empty and spiteful

As life rewinds through this window

I'm still looking for home

No one gets out

The city is stretched like a canvas

We pose on the platform with faces alight

'Til we're painted out of shadows

Carriage flickers

Framing the head of the Baptist

Mute Caravaggio haunting the dark

We're painted out of shadows

On Calvary

The sun rises over

Calvary

It's time to be going

I'll look out over these walls

'Cause I know that Calvary's coming

Rembrandt, sleepless

Fingers leave black apparitions

Loss was the only condition of love

The light to give us shadows

Don't wake the night watch

We'll slip from the arms of the city

A lover unwilling to wake up alone

Who paints us out of shadows

On Calvary

The sun rises over

Calvary

It's time to be going

I'll look out over these walls

'Cause I know

Pigment so dry with the shame

Colours that don't have a name

I'm unfinished

Just pencil lines on a page

On Calvary

The sun rises over

Calvary

It's time to be going

I'll look out over these walls

'Cause I know

Calgary's coming