Hanging from a Hit

[Verse 1]

What this night wants is what it gets

Strung in silken knots, lit by cigarettes

Flaring side by side with the streets all wet

Is the only thing that's bright

[Verse 2]

And I don't need to cross that bridge, I find

I'm swinging and sailing over the pit tonight

I'm hanging from a hit tonight

Was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips

[Verse 3]

What's making all my tears

Is taking all my fears away

But I don't need to cry

'Cause now I'm clear, ooh

[Verse 4]

A moth that's swerving through the sage

A creature crashing from a cage

A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray

A day she spends the night

[Verse 5]

And I can hear her sigh

As she's almost asleep on one side

I lie back on my pillow

And ask what her husband is like, ooh

[Verse 6]

And she says

"I smile polite and I tip and tithe

And I see the sights with a well-trained eye

But I calmly cry

'Cause I'm too much mine without him

[Verse 7]

And I lie reclined, where the room is quiet

And it's quiet at night, the soft silk is fine

And the waves are white

But the wind has died without him

[Verse 8]

And I scream my smiles and I want my wires

And I need my stripes and I read the lines

Till I lid my eyes

And I'm losing time without him."

[Verse 9]

And she says

"And I ignite inside and I flash with fire

And I limp from life and I'm blazing blind

And I'm surging live and give up my mind

When with him."

[Verse 10]

And then every dream inside

Turns to flames, fades to grey and is dying

And the smoke rises into

A white, blank, bare, broke-open sky, ooh