Loan Shark

Number six Mason's yard I stood outside and watched a million years go by Dream love come into me easy Washed out and breezy, the rivers that turn Beneath the sky lines swallowed up by towers Too many hours spent eating the world Oh what a country brought me to a clearing Direct upon hearing the beautiful song Of progress sweeping like a shimmer Develop and simmer, the fever is gone Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out At the time it was better I believe you But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt You had a blast, oh didn't you? Hard rain boils underneath me I want you to teach me whatever you learned Of all the secrets, harboring desire Professional fire which passively burned Oh what a waste of beauty and retention We don't ever mention the grit and the grime But I still trust you, I will always love you Don't let the papers unravel your mind Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out At the time it was better I believe you But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt You had a blast, didn't you? And tell me what was it like and how did it feel Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel Robert took the rap and spent 10 months in jail We had to lie, to lie Sometimes I feel like all my heroes are dying around me And all my answers are the questions and dreams I have to shake myself to the forces that hold me I have to dream waking But maybe when I breathe my last I'll be steadied by reason To throw my nerves at the wall of the earth Oh don't you leave me here, no direction and vision We have to tread slowly And I will throw caution bravely to the wind I'll cut myself free from burning stretched within I have no self greater than nothing I am And we drift, we drift like sound And beauty breaks our ears again We drift, we drift like sound waves We drift like sound waves Take a long walk cobble stone and city Did you used to run here, did you used to shout I had a long day trying to remember Breathing in silence and breathing it out