Viceroy's Row

[Verse 1]

Now there's a crank in every crowd sprinkling gunpowder

Seems that everything is about to blow

They lit the burning paper with a waxen taper

Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]

And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours

Where all of the nightmares go

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 2]

He made a fortune out of barbed wire in the last days of the Empire

Built a cast-iron curtain just to keep control

He was a tycoon, then a cheapskate, went out looking for a keepsake

To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]

And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours

Where all of the nightmares go

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 3]

He had a satchel full of cash and dishes full of ashes

He went from boom to bust in the blinking of a lash

Heard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol

Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]

And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours

Where all of the nightmares go

They're calling for 'em slowly, now the war is over

Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[Bridge]

The woman in a blindfold

She doesn't want her hand held

Walking through a minefield

Saying "How does this feel?"

Stepping on the quicksand

Going down slow

Hiding up here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 4]

Nothing satisfies the ruins of his blue eyes

Like blood stains on a diamond mine

And deep within you felt not one measure of his guilt

Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]

Yet her penitent lover took a ribbon of rubber

Tied her to the bed made of silken thread

But without an ounce of mercy, they denounced him with a curse

Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's Row

[Verse 4]

Now his little concubine in her cemetery drag

Her face all smeared with charcoal is leaving all her cares, so

Take 500 acres and see what you can sow

We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]

And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours

Where all of the nightmares go

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row