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 the 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 spectre 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 have lost you

I throw a window open wide and step through