SCREAM AT THE BLACKBIRDS -------------------------------------------------------- Scream at the blackbirds beat them out of the bushes Sworn to the lesson printed on their dark wings All alone once again not even a bottle Bread from a stranger, it's long turned to stone Where are the circus girls and one-trick ponies God bless the freaks and the mulberry mash Stars stain the tressle with ghosts and graffiti I'll zig zag clear of all earthly restraint While monuments fall between years that are folded Trumpets give warning you'd better leave this place It's april fool's on good friday but you'd never know it Come tomorrow you'll find a whole new way to fail Truth like fine wine, very few ever taste it The supply, it'll always exceed the demand Me, I once was in love and for that I'm grateful but the scorn lingers not far beyond the sea It's the first cut that burns most deep in the memory The world here it offers only future rewards It's so hard to find passion stuck in the middle You try too hard just to look at it wrong And there's people that say you've forsaken the vision And hold it against you what was not meant to be You say you don't give a damn about much of anything And hey that's alright I'm kinda like that too I'm like that too If I had me a dollar for each long empty moment I'd buy every soul back from the bottomless pit I'd make the devil retire put him on social security Free the paranoid man with a foot against his neck So father dear father please send some money I promise, I promise heaven is mine because I am the flame, I am the fire It's only a path, a footstep away Scream at the blackbirds beat them out of the bushes Sworn to the lesson printed on their dark wings All alone once again not even a bottle or bread from a stranger, long turned to stone Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds Scream at the blackbirds