Shutout

Throw off those gimmicks to the boys

Let them send it all up in the air

There is crouching and wailing on stones

Down here, we must freeze off this ratmosphere

Scrapin' out noise across night wires

Runs for the distant cities

There is never a lock in the fall down here

As the big fool pours away

In the shutout, in the shutout

How will we know the great doll?

Something attacked the Earth last night

With a kick that man habit, I

Cut the sleep tight boys who dreamed and dreamed

Of a city, like the sky

There were faces bobbing in the heat

For some rising from her zone

Moving, hitting, holding on

For the promise to carry us home

In the shutout, in the shutout

Never a lock in the fall

In the shutout, in the shutout

How will we know the great doll?