I sneaked across the border -- it was threatening rain --

So I could stand in this tunnel, waiting for the roaring train

And watch those black kids working out kung fu moves

If you don't want to be the horses' hoofprints you got to be the hooves



Hear that lonesome violin play

See the notes float up into the overcast

and change to white birds as they sail on through

and soar away free into incandescent blue



People getting ready behind all those rectangles of light

"Put on your grin mask, babe, you know we're steppin out tonight"

You hear that sound, like hammers only small?

It's what the people's heads say when they beat them against the wall



Hear that lonesome violin play

See the notes float up into the overcast

and change to white birds as they sail on through

and soar away free into incandescent blue



Concrete vortex sucks down the wind

It's howling like a blinded violin.

Oh -- tongues of fire, come and kiss my brow

if I ever needed you, well I need you now



Hear that lonesome violin play

See the notes float up into the overcast

and change to white birds as they sail on through

and soar away free into incandescent blue