Deadwing

Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

And something warm and soft just passed through here

It took the precious things that I hold dearer

It rifled through the cling and disappeared

The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare

In a dentist chair

Sucking in the air

Wire across the stair

Kicking down the door

At your local store

When your world of bore

Forces through the floor

Unexpected news

Wearing high heeled shoes

Blowing out the fuse

Paying all your dues

Tempering lullaby

Like a fractured tie

It's a worthless lie

To the public eye

I don't take waifs and strays back home with me

My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes I'd have to say I like my privacy

Did you know you're on closed circuit TV

So smile at me

And a dream you had

Of your mom and dad

On a beach somewhere

And the boys aren't there

With the cancer threat

In a cigarette

Deadwing lullaby

Find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train

A specter from the next life breathes his bargain of pain

I look with you into the speeding black rain

Afraid to touch someone afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I have lost you

I throw a window open wide and step through