Salvation

The carbon on the fingerprint

That's lifted from the lighter's flint

That caused another smoker's squint

Who sees the point but not the light;

Salvation

And rabble-rousing diatribes

Revealing more for what it hides

Who plays a little off the sides

Who swears they can sin in spite

Of salvation

The gavel of the auctioneer

The bureau with the cracked veneer

It's going, going, gone but you're not here

So I laughed until I cried

Then I chose another side

When you asked me to decide

Between you and staying alive

The horoscope says let it go

The devil is the one you know

The one you love's a domino

A bull with glass and diamond eyes

And salvation

But everywhere is two way glass

And double locks and easy pass

Turn oxygen to laughing gas

Give skeletons for Valentine's

Salvation

The gavel of the auctioneer

The bureau with the cracked veneer

It's going, going, gone but you're not here

So I laughed until I cried

Then I chose another side

When you asked me to decide

Between you and staying alive