First in Line

How could you have known? There was only starlight to see by And you couldn't waste a second while the continent a-beckoned From across the ice And into the crevasse The sledges tumbled and detached and seized into the sea Sometimes That's all The first in line Gets to be How could you have known? They raised you out of mirrors and smoke A beacon from the heavens, whence they said you had descended I knew it was the other way around A statue of a fully suited goddess Slingin' arrows, lookin' right at me Sometimes That's all The first in line Gets to be If death Should come Before your day Then life Becomes A cabaret If death should come before your day... A shrine of gold lame and satin Pyramid of old Manhattan Curiously Sometimes that's all the first in line Sometimes that's all the first in line Sometimes that's all the first in line gets to be