Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Joyful Reunion lyrics

You start in a city far beyond the reach of memory Where I was the word breaking out of the parentheses You summoned a spark before the cigarette was in my mouth This inconsolable wind just enough to make it flicker out So let it all come down Explode without a sound I staggered around like a wasp behind a window pane Flanked by the ghosts of Jesus Christ and Emperor Charlemagne You showed me the bones at the bottom of the well again And then you cut to my smile as I toss another body in So let it all come down Explode without a sound And the silence seems much louder than it ever did When all we have to measure it is time We tear the pages out But we write them faster, we write them faster We tear the pages out But we write them faster, we write them faster We try to look away But we're dazzled by this crippled symmetry We tear the pages out But we write them faster, we write them faster So let it all come down Explode without a sound We tear the pages out But we write them faster, write them faster We tear the pages out But we write them faster, write them faster And the silence seems much louder than it ever did When all we have to measure it is time