Less Than Five Miles Away

Between the cold drinks in the freezer And the latest tabloid rags A voice screams over the music "Put the money in the bag!" No one ever hears his reasons No one ever hears his name This is all happening right now Less than five miles away A shifty fortune teller (A second-rate contender) Communion with the dead (in the middle of round four) Lying about the astral plane (deflecting every combination) So she can keep her children fed (until he just can't anymore) Listening to a mother sick with cancer (he feels his knees starting to buckle) Wondering what she's gonna say (he hears the numbers one through eight) This is all happening right now Less than five miles away This is all happening right now Less than five miles away The stranger in the bushes Looking through the windows of a home At a woman from the movies That's been living there alone She's home at 7 in the evening He sees the code punched in the gate This is all happening right now Less than five miles away This is all happening right now And it all looks so pretty from a distance How we're living out this story that we tell Baby we were both designed out in the cosmos As just a way of asking questions about itself You know the great writer that left us Well his house is still around Like an old dead volcano That sleeps over the town They're gonna turn it into condos They'll be done by New Year's Day This is all happening right now Less than five miles away This is all happening right now