The Rest of the Night

Seventeen days til the fourth of July And I'm riding the concrete and wind In between trips to the cafe I slip through my Daydream mazes again There is firewood, coal and old newspaper Locked tight and ready to burn The spark's a mystery but I know it's history And darlin it always returns We gon' be up for the rest of the night We gon be out til the morning is light Ain't gonna stop til it feels all right We gon be up for the rest of the night Madison waits for me down by the river Laid out in the afternoon sun She's a beautiful stain on a desolate plain Where long ago water would run We careen through the ditches and over the cracks As we hunt through the shadows and heat She suddenly swoons and communes with the daisies Fighting up through the gaps in the street We gon' be up for the rest of the night We gon be out til the morning is light Ain't gonna stop til it feels all right We gon be up for the rest of the night Woah oh oh oh oh We gonna fly so high that we can't come Down down down Take us miles away from the ground Madison drove from Chicago to New York In the summer of twenty ought three She stared at hole in the the ground there for hours Couldn't believe what she'd seen She cried that night from a motel window looking out over bowery bay In the morning awoke and shouted life is a joke But I won't let it stand in my way We gon' be up for the rest of the night We gon be out til the morning is light Ain't gonna stop til it feels all right We gon be up for the rest of the night There's a world outside whether we like it or not And beyond that another one more Beyond that an infinite plane of existence Makes us wonder what we are here for And who knows maybe nothing buildings crumble Lives are shattered some will say that's beyond our control But when life wakes us and breaks us so much We fix it until we are whole, so We gon' be up for the rest of the night We gon be out til the morning is light Ain't gonna stop til it feels all right We gon be up for the rest of the night Woah oh oh oh oh We gonna fly so high that we can't come Down down down Take us miles away from the ground Oh oh oh oh