It's the changing of the guards, straight from mailbox to alarms and the
kitty cats did scream oh how they howled behind the house - well the big one
laying in the frying pan talk around the town is you've been listening you
cover it up just as fast as you can cause you're trying to keep it from
growing and getting big

And they will all be heirs to their own thrones and old homes without a
downtown to grow old in or a son to telephone. And either side of paper
is erupting a snake your pulling trains to Oakland in the pouring rain well
every drop will count when they tally it up and you always learned a lot
from the deep end of faith.

The kids were pushing their fingers through tarmac on pavement the
lightning was breathing in faces and either side of paper is erupting a
snake were pulling trains to Oakland in the pouring rain well every drop
will count when they tally it up and you always learned a lot from the
deep end of faith and you worry yourself sick