Tell for yourself, watch me sweat, watch me crawl. Stretch me on the table, up against the wall. You can see for yourself, but you better not say. You're working four more hours every other day.
I know that the sunset empire shudders and shakes. I know there's a floodgate and a raging river. I say the silence of the ribbons of iron and steel. I say hear the punch drunk huddle drive hammer and steel.
So you've got the blues. The evening wore out your shoes. To a shuffling beat. It's a colorful crowd. . Spraycan information. Cover the lonely station.
Breaking me down, lunatic noises. Breaking me down, desperate voices. Breaking me down, phone is blistering. Breaking me down, death by listening. . Somebody's out there, Somebody's waiting.
Conquistador of Mexico, the Zulu and the Navaho. The Belgians in the Congo short memory. Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India. The deadline in South Africa short memory.
Let's begin, I am ready, let's begin. Sell my soul to him. Shed my skin, I just want to shed my skin. I don't want to sell my soul to him. Mechanize, city bursts and farmers die.
Thought one day I'd make my fortune. Like the ancient cavalcades. From the shipyards of New Zealand. Chasing history I left home. Moving west into the sunset.
(Instrumental to second part). Come to me now, be careful of what you say. Don't make a sound, there's noise enough in this. Come with me now, let night move into day.
And my eyes shut tight as the eyes of dark slip away. And I'll drift through dreams till the dawn of the day. When the sun comes up and I'll be here alone.