Throwing Stones

Picture a bright blue ball just spinnin', spinnin' free

Dizzy with eternity

Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea

Call it home for you and me

A peaceful place or so it looks from space

Closer look reveals the human race

Full of hope, full of grace is the human face

But afraid, we may lay our home to waste

There's a fear down here we can't forget

Hasn't got a name just yet

Always awake, always around

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime falls

And again the hunt begins and again the blood wind calls

By and by again, the morning Sun will rise

But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes

And it rolls, it strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets

Staking turf, dividing up meat

Nightmare spook, piece of heat

It's you and me, you and me

Click, flash blade in ghetto night

Rudy's looking for a fight

Rat cat alley roll them bones

Need that cash to feed that jones

And the politician's throwing stones

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Commissars and pin-striped bosses roll the dice

Any way they fall, guess who gets to pay the price

Money green, or proletarian grey

Selling guns instead of food today

So the kids, they dance and shake their bones

And the politician's throwing stones

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Heartless powers try to tell us what to think

If the spirit's sleepin', then the flesh is ink, yeah

History's page, it is carved in stone

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

On our own, on our own, on our own

If the game is lost, then we're all the same

No one left to place or take the blame

We will leave this place an empty stone

Or that shining ball of blue we can call our home

So the kids, they dance and shake their bones

And the politician's throwing stones

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Shippin' powders back and forth

Singin', "Black goes south and white comes north"

And the whole world full of petty wars

Singin', "I got mine and you got yours"

And the current fashions set the pace

Lose your step, fall out of grace

And the radical, he rant and rage

Singin', "Someone got to turn the page"

And the rich man in his summer home

Singin', "Just leave well enough alone"

But his pants are down, his cover's blown

And the politician's throwing stones

So the kids, they dance and shake their bones

'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Picture a bright blue ball just spinnin', spinnin' free

It's dizzyin', the possibilities

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Whoa, fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Whoa, fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Whoa, fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Whoa, fall down

(Ashes to ashes, all fall down)

Singin', "Ashes to ashes, all fall down"

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Ashes to ashes, all fall down

Ashes to ashes, all fall down