Somewhere from the mortar They saved you from far away labels Eternity means nothing But a sign on a bridge When everyone's a stranger They call for you by your first name And laugh at jokes you once made When you were a kid Somewhere down the barrel Lies a bullet that I can't keep And in these waters I'm wading for a reason After all it's in my head I'm not a slave to a desperate lust And in these waters I'm wading for a reason After all Screaming limitations fall silent on New York corners A terrorist's a prisoner, and a tourist a thief When paintings seem like bargains but they're nothing but wallpaper I'm plagued by small town fascists like a rash on my skin Somewhere down the barrel Lies a bullet that I can't keep And I've been searching for something in the distance After all it's in my head I'm not a slave to an unborn child And in these waters I'm wading for a reason After all After all After all