How To Replace It

Do you ever think about

How to replace it

Now the night turns in

Into a poker tell

And the day runs dry

Where once was a well

An enormous chill

That you need to quell

Hear the fishermen cough

And the seagulls cry

How they call your bluff

When you touch the sky

Do you ever feel

After setting sail

What looks far away

Doesn’t get any closer by

We don’t know enough of what we

Have until it’s gone they say

It’s heaven over there until the devil has another say

You pray

As if time will ever tell

Politics and sympathies 200 different kinds of glee

I wonder what the world would be

When everybody’s in the sea

I wait

As if time will ever tell

Let the preachers whine

They haven’t got a clue

When the signal dies

What do I really lose

There are many ways

How to replace

These tired lines

Of these modern blues

So the summer creaks

When the daughter speaks

It is in our gift

To plug up the leaks

Do you ever think

As if time will ever tell

Garbage in the mail today I’ll send them on a holiday

Someone should tell them they should stay

Around the clock, eternity

We’ll see

As if time will ever tell

Suspicion is the lightning rod, believe in you believe in god

I tried it out, I liked it not

I love your feet they make me hot

We wait

As if time will ever tell

We are careful

We’re not running to the hills

Our feathers will be

Sticking to our skin

What are we in for

When the night comes

We won’t falter we had

Years of light and

We get smaller, we will win

What are we in for

Was it good for you

Cause I can hardly speak

When the flesh is strong

Then the mind is weak

Still we soldier on

We turn up the noise

So we don’t hear the gong

Of our losing streak

Do you ever think about

How to replace it

How the night turns in

Into a fire hose

For you to get

Your daily dose

You stand naked

As the cold wind blows

Leave no traces

Abandon everything

Don’t replace it

You won’t miss a thing

And feel

As if time will ever tell

Tracks are covered

When you’re looking back

Names and lovers

Lost under the stack

It seems

Now it’s time to break the spell

Now break it up

Now break it up

As if time will ever tell