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