White Shadow Waltz

[Verse 1]

Abandoned by all her admirers

Wild White Shadow Waltz

Stands alone on a stair down the hall

Just one slip from a trip and a fall

[Verse 2]

In a cold morning, holding her lighter

Wan White Shadow Waltz

Stirs, sputters and stalls

Wakes, wavers and walks right through her prison walls

[Interlude]

She says, "The doorbell is ringing

Go see who it is

Our little island's sinking into mist"

[Verse 3]

A day came, a night went, it lightened

An animal broke his way out

Moped through the scattering crowd

And crawled back to his circus shell

[Verse 4]

And circling the zoo's screaming clients

Was White Shadow Waltz

Deaf to their torn breaths and calls

Wait, take a look closer hey, he's hardly moving at all

[Interlude]

She says, "There's someone is knocking

Go see who it is

Our little world is shaking

I guess our little world is breaking"

[Verse 5]

In the presence of all our despisers

We'll falter and crawl to the bed

Our world is a black shadow bled

And what is this tune in my head?

[Outro]

She says, "It's just the white wind when it whimpers

It's just the black rain when it squalls

It's just white meat whistling a waltz

It's just nine hands wiping a white shadow off of the walls"