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I'm walking in Times Square in the Electric Daylight
I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight
 
The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white.
The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white
I'm up here with my spying glass at the window of the world
 
For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.
I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above
 
For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love
 
 


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.


Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone
[the sermon]
 
 
 
"And remember to flee far away from the unbridled,
 
and the impudent, the malicious, and the unlucky.
 
For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,
 
and like lepers and people stricken with plague,
 
they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)
 
''(Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher [1433-1499])''
 
 
 
You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
 
Everybody comes from nowhere


You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD
Everybody comes from nowhere.
There is hope, it loops up in the air
There is hope, it loops up in the air


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
 
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone
 
 


You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
 
Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried.
Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried
Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pain
 
and sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy.
Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pane
 
And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy
 
 


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
 
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.
Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone
 
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned
Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are set to follow


Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are selling firewood
Now I know.
 
Now I know.
 
Now I know.
 
Now I know
 
Now I know
 
Now I know

Revision as of 16:44, 20 May 2009

I'm walking down Times Square in the Electric Daylight The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white. I'm up here with my spying glass at the window of the world For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.

[the sermon]

You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD Everybody comes from nowhere. There is hope, it loops up in the air

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone.

You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried. Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pain and sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy.

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone. Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are set to follow

Now I know. Now I know. Now I know.

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