How To Replace It

Did you ever get to think about How to replace it? Now the night turns in Into a poker tell And the day runs dry Where once was a well An enormous chill That you need to quell Hear the fisherman's cough And the seagulls cry How they call your bluff When you touch the sky Do you ever feel (after setting sail) What looks far away Doesn't get any closer by We don't know enough of what we have until it's gone They say it's heaven over there until the devil has another say You pray As if time will ever tell Politics and sympathies, 200 different kinds of glee I wonder what the world would be When everybody's in the sea I wait As if time will ever tell Let the preachers whine They haven't got a clue When the signal dies What do I really lose There are many ways How to replace These tired lines Of these modern blues So the summer creaks When the daughter speaks It is in our gift to plug up the leaks? Do you ever think As if time will ever tell? Garbage in the mail today, I'll send them on a holiday Someone should tell them they should stay Around the clock, eternity We'll see as if time will ever tell Suspicion is the lightning rod Believe in you, believe in God I tried it out, I liked it not I love your feet, they make me hot We wait as if time will ever tell We are careful We're not running to the hills Our feathers will be sticking to our skin What are we in for? When the night comes, we won't falter We had years of light and we get smaller We will win What are we in for Was it good for you? 'Cause I can hardly speak When the flesh is strong Then the mind is weak Still we soldier on We turn up the noise So we don't hear the gong Of our losing streak Do you ever think about how to replace it? How the night turns in into a fire hose For you to get your daily dose You stand naked as the cold wind blows Leave no traces, abandon everything Don't replace it, you won't miss a thing And feel As if time will ever tell Tracks are covered when you're looking back Names and lovers lost under the stack It seems Now it's time to break the spell Now break it up Now break it up As if time will ever tell