River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat Drums are still playing I can see them marching close This he walks like a shadow and that he dances like a ghost The one that looks like jimmy lord he scares me the most Playing boyhood mumbly peg a six inch bowie blade

Black tambourine Black hearts in effigy We sing a song that was hated All dressed in rag and bones Sharks smell the blood that I'm bleeding I know there's something wrong Might take a fire to kill it Might take a hurricane

Don't you leave me all alone Leave your perfume on my pillow and your picture on my phone Leave the towel on the shower and that empty shampoo bottle That make-up on the counter And I don't mind at all When you gotta go 'Cause I love what you've done You

It took all the man in me To be the dog you wanted me to be Yeah let him feast my heart is big My heart is big, my blood will slide Head in the sand, feet in the clay And time is still like grease it slips Yes shall we take a spin again in business This

Sha la la la Last night I lay in bed so blue 'Cause I realized the truth, they can't love me like you Baby they ain't got a clue, can't love me like you They try to romance me But you got that nasty And that's what I want (that's what I want) So baby,

You can get it if you really want But you must try, try and try, try and try You'll succeed at last You'll succeed at last, mmh, yeah Persecution you must fear Win or lose you're about to get your share Got your mind set on a dream You can get it though

No ones getting out of here, alive Nevermind there's nothing I can do Bet your life there's something killing you It's a shame we have to die my dear What a way to go, but have no fear Take a good hard look for the very last time The very last one in a

The sun goes down He takes the day, but I'm grown And in your way He walks away My tears dry on their own In this blue shade So we are history Your shadow covers me The sky above ablaze

Did you hide yourself away? I can't see you anymore Did you eclipse another day? I used to wake up to the color of your soul Are you living through the ghost? Did you finally find a place Above the shadows so the world will never know? Everything that

But I'm worried that your heart might feel the same And I have to be honest with you baby But I got you this rose And I need to know I'm not try'na start a fire, with this flame Tell me If I'm wrong, and this is crazy Will you let it die or let it grow?