Big Darkness

Dead in the sun and covered in glue There is a town where nothing moves Nobody works and nobody plays And all of their dreams have melted away All of their hopes have come and gone Even the vultures have moved on They say a hero's coming soon With ivory lungs like huge balloons There ain't no moon and there ain't no stars Over the land of endless scars Covered in brown and coming undone We are what we will not become Only a rundown rusty still Runs through a town that has no will But they say a hero's coming soon He's coming to take a giant breath Into his lungs and blow away the sun I saw a vulture swarming up above a dying crowd Above the villains and the heroes and the down-and-out To snag the carrion and leeches and to stake their claim Before the darkness has a chance to wash it all away And if the evening ever comes maybe it'll set things right 'Cause in the dark even the blind can feel a speck of light I'm looking for a sign to show but it don't ever come I'm waiting for the dark to fall and wash away the sun There ain't no heat and there ain't no light Only the black hole of our eyes Caught in an overcrowded room Waiting for its set and two moves But out in the distance there's a glow That nobody sees so nobody knows Well they say a hero's coming soon He's coming to take a giant breath of air Into his lungs and blow away the sun I saw a vulture swarming up above a dying crowd Above the villains and the heroes and the down-and-out To snag the carrion and leeches and to stake their claim Before the darkness has a chance to wash it all away 'Cause if the evening ever comes maybe it'll set things right 'Cause in the dark even the blind can feel a speck of light I'm looking for a sign to show but it don't ever come I'm waiting for the dark to fall and wash away the sun