Water Tower

[Verse 1]

Moving lights on an overhead map

Have to be headed somewhere

There's probably gonna be a building burning in town

When you smell smoke in the air

Small hopes are seen to still be small ones

When the hour grows late

And a body floating in a water tower

Is bound to take on weight

[Verse 2]

Somebody comes bearing the standard

Just when you need to see it held high

You never miss your water

Until you're parched riding home from the slaughter

Oracles are seen emerging

From the northern mists

And a body floating in a water tower

Is bound at the ankles and wrists

[Bridge]

Bound at the ankles and wrists, marks in the skin

From where the ropes have been digging right in

[Verse 3]

Men of legend built the cities of the prairie

To rise from the horizon at night

Feel something bigger than me

When I see them trapped in the headlight

Head east, head north by northeast

Get my bearings, and know

That a body floating in a water tower

Only has one way to go

[Outro]

Float downstream

Let me float downstream

Floating downstream