Hard Life - Big City - Duesenberg

So this house is now on fire Let me warm myself The flames no longer burn me There's no danger to my health I can see the falling cinders Making ghosts upon the

There is no conjuror Or sleight or hand involved There is no mystery to be solved This is a magic with a purity of form This is a miracle Close your eyes close

Tapping the table fourteen times Setting the cutlery down in line Don't leave the house 'til the gas is checked And checked and checked and checked and checked

I always wondered how my destiny would go Taken by the ocean abducted by a ufo Caught in a field with a crowd of devotees Waiting for the final judgement No rep

A last act of compassion as this old world disappears A message to a loved one a warning to colleagues or peers Standing perhaps at the end of the bed or floati

It all began with a single spark The universe the world and me That spark it's still there The source of living things The source of this eternity I saw the lit

Leaving here is hard to do Every time I think of you All my plans My secret schemes Failed to meet my hopes and dreams You will never know just how far I had to

This moment seemed so far away A thousand long lost yesterdays Floating down an endless stream Of seconds Minutes Hours and weeks We search for clues We work we

Gathered here drowning in their Angry tears why do they not Understand why do they not comprehend Torn from the world by some dark fate Suddenly no one can hear