Blue Factory Flame

[Verse 1]

When I die

Put my bones in an empty street

To remind me how it used to be

Don't write my name on a stone

Bring a Coleman lantern and a radio

A Cleveland game and two fishing poles

And watch with me from the shore

Ghostly steel and iron ore

Ships coming home

[Chorus]

Where I am

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

[Verse 2]

Clearly Iron Age beasts

You can tell by the rust, by the chains

And by the oil that they bleed

A crew of crows fly the skulls and bones

They fly the colors of their homes

I fly the cross of the blue factory flame

Stitched with heavy sulfur thread

They ain't proud colors but they're true

Colors of my home

[Chorus]

Where I am

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

[Bridge]

Every year for a thousand years

Every night for a thousand more

Every mile for ten thousand miles

I hear 'em call

I hear 'em call

I hear 'em call

They never say to come home

Never say to come home

[Chorus]

Where I am

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

[Outro]

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness

Paralyzed by the emptiness