Pulling Black Flowers from an Hourglass

歌詞

There's nothing quite so lonesome as an empty ferris wheel Rusting on its hinges in the rain Save for that feeling when you're driving down a lonely stretch of 5, Next to tracks that are carrying no train And I can see the body of a bird that met its doom Just another case of roadkill for the highway to consume And you know that I've been feeling every life that I pass Pulling black flowers from an hourglass I can see the fog come tumbling down the hillside Like a tree whose will has been broke I can hear the raindrops spattering on my hood Like a playing card pinned to a spoke And I can see a scarecrow with nothing to protect Just another broken phantom in the caverns of neglect And you know that I've been feeling every life that I pass Pulling black flowers from an hourglass The lake moves left to right, and the old men do the same When they take their favorite circuits 'round the shore But there's a mighty hidden shadow looming out over the blissful And it's too hard for the old men to ignore Saint Helens had a fire buried well within her soul It's so frightening how the relapse of a saint can take its toll And you know that I've been feeling every life that I pass Pulling black flowers from an hourglass