Marty Willson-piper - A Drink To Drift Away lyrics

Pale, woven with the threads of fear Fade, as shards of gla** Fall from your eyes like tears Who can wait this long To know if they belong The boulevard of neon stars The rush and hiss of pa**ing cars The roar of laughter in the street Sad crowds shuffle on their feet The peeling paint of deep regret On faces hung with cigarettes The strays and waywards looking down The comfort of the underground Hide, underneath the arches from the rain Time, has deeply cut the telling lines of age A drink to drift away As night time turns to day And aspirations have all gone And no-one knows whose side they're on Kisses are reserved for graves Nothing grows and no-one waves Dark the rings around your eyes Reveal all you have sacrificed Half your concentration on Your shell is there but you have gone And time creeps slowly grinning by Expecting you to shrink and die But still the pulse of life is there Pushing you on and pulling your hair And as you dream of your escape You carry on and seal your fate The rain is red and you are blue And even the lies have the ring of truth Tomorrow never ever comes Chained to the past by what you've done Priests and gamblers hand in hand And rules that no-one understands God takes bets on whose to hell Another lonely prize to sell The blades of reason drip with blood Without the challenge of if they should And still the light is burning on With music playing all night long Waiters tired have left their bars As bitter men act out their farce