The Bridge I Burned

[Verse 1]

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 up above

For better or for worse it's a perverse universe, my love

[Chorus]

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone

[Verse 2]

And remember to free 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!

You mutter underneath your breath, it echoes around the world

Everybody comes from nowhere

There is hope, it loops up in the air

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

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 pane pain

And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]

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 sadly following

[Outro][x3]

Now I know