Stormy Night

The moon it don’t get blown around, In a wild wind when the sun goes down

But you can’t stand still when you come around, You say you stand on solid ground

As fever takes you sickness grows, The chokehold swallow down it goes

Past memories with strings attached, To the egg from which the swallow hatched

 

And it fills your body with retribution

Stormy night

Waiting for the second light

 

You and I we’re not alone, They’re watching from the telephone

The little secrets that we know, The furrowed brow the heart that grows

And I look at maps late at night, There’s a quality to the light

Look closely then I turn the page, Ten thousand bodies in a lake

 

And they’re sinking slowly, rotting falling

To the bottom

Silently

 

Everybody knows where the story goes

Everybody knows where the cancer grows

 

Well the devil met me on the beach, And he whispered something in my ear

He crawled back down to the slimy deep, And it festered in me for a year

The thing that I don’t understand, With the laws and all the slight of hand

We shake our hands on shifting sands, Invest yourself in the land

 

And it fills your body with retribution

Stormy night

Waiting for the second light

 

Everybody knows where the story goes

Everybody knows where the cancer grows