Deadwing

And something warm and soft just passed through here

It took the precious things that I hold dearer

It rifled through the grey and disappeared

The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare in a dentist's chair

Sucking in the air, wire across the stair

Kicking down the door at your local store

With the world at war, voices through the floor

Unexpected news, wearing high-heeled shoes

Blowing out the fuse, paying all your dues

Deadwing lullaby, like a fracture tied

It's a worthless lie, to the public eye

I don't take waifs and strays back home with me

My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes, I'd have to say I like my privacy

And did you know you're on closed-circuit TV?

So smile at me

And a dream you had, of your mum and dad

On a beach somewhere, and the poison air

With the cancer threat, in a cigarette

Deadwing lullaby, find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train

A specter from the next life breathes his fog on the pane

I look with you into the speeding black rain

Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I've lost you

I throw a window open wide and step through