Across the miles tonight And I am sending you this message through the wires tonight Just close your eyes and hold on tight And here I am, concentrating girl with all my might When I'm all alone on a distant path And my ticket home has been torn in half

Waiting for lightning to strike You're sowing the seeds of a nightmare from hell Walking through fire, fate's in my hands Man on a wire, bearing the brand Lightning to strike Your prayers and your demons are tolling the bell I'll bring you the head of

Everything that you've done I am the one who crawled through the wire Silent and froze in the mud I know a cold as cold as it gets Blew out the light of my soul To the end of the earth I search for your face For the one who laid all of our beauty to

I drink a Boost for breakfast, an Ensure for dessert Somebody ordered pancakes, I just sip the sizzurp That right there could drive a sane man berserk Not to worry, Mr. H-to-the-Izzo's back to wi-zerk How do you console my mom or give her light support

For you, the blind who once could see The dancer slows her frantic pace In pain and desperation Her aching limbs and downcast face Aglow with perspiration Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire With just the briefest pause The flooding through her memory The

Meet me in the morning 56th and Wabasha Is right before the dawn Little rooster crowin' There must be something on his mind Well, I struggled through barbed wire Felt the hail fall from above Look at the sun Sinkin' like a ship