Hanging From A Hit

Intro: (x2) verse 1 What this night wants is what it gets Strung in silken knots Lit by cigarettes flaring side by side With the streets all wet verse 2 As the only thing that's bright And I don't need to cross that bridge I find I'm swinging or sailing over the pit tonight I'm hanging from a hit tonight Was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips verse 3 What's making all my tears Is taking all my fears away But I don't need to cry Because now I'm clear Instrumental: verse 4 A moth that's swerving through the sage A creature crashing from a cage A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray Verse 5 A day she spends the night And I can hear her sighing As she's almost asleep on one side I lie back on my pillow And ask what her husband is like Instrumental Verse 6 And she says, "I smile polite And I tip and tithe And I see the sights with a well-trained eye But I calmly cry Because I'm too much mine without him Verse 7 And I lie, reclined where the room is quiet And it's quiet at night The soft silk is fine And the waves are white But the wind has died without him Verse 8 And I scream my smiles And I want my wires and I need my stripes And I read the lines until I lid my eyes And I'm losing time without him Verse 9 And she says And I ignite inside And I flash with fire And I limp from life And I'm blazing blind And I'm surging live And give up my mind When with him verse 10 And then every dream inside Turns to flames, fades to grey and is dying And the smoke rises into A white, blank, bare, broke-open sky Outro