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