Wish You Well

[Verse 1]

He wrote her name with a needle gun

In black and blue

Your eyes are stone, she said

Beautiful and dead

And I wish you well

[Bridge 1]

I took a turn on this carousel

How long ago now, I never can tell

I never stopped to wonder

[Verse 2]

Maybe a morning

Maybe a thousand years

I only walk high wires

To tend an Eden

Of magnolias dying

[Refrain 1]

And though I'm coarse and primitive

I wish love, lord

I wish love could live

Forever

What I once saw burning bright as hell

Now here comes that weird chill

I don't stop to wonder

[Verse 3]

I threaded her name through the needle's eye

As it frayed

Tied the ends and stitched it up

Then hung my head down and wept

But I wish you well

[Bridge 2]

Who'll pray for the killer's sake?

I used to be so wide awake

Like certain mornings

That last a thousand hours

[Refrain 2]

Though I'm coarse and primitive

I wish love, lord

I wish love could live forever

I'm burning bright at hell

Here comes that weird chill

But I wish you well

Your eyes are stone, she said

Truly beautiful and dead, I wish you well

[Coda]

I only ride on this carousel

But, I never really stop to wonder