There in the dark. There's a child and she's waiting. Lost in the maze of a fait accompli. Is it a crime to be just hesitating. While we're pretending that we never see.
Cheshire cat. Done rip you soul. Don't turn your back. Don't turn your back. . Car rolls by. Move real slow. Fade it to black. Fade it to black. . But nothing's going on.
The night is growing dark. From somewhere deep within. It shelters like an ark. That always takes you in. And the mind goes numb. Until it's feeling no pain.
Time. Standing all alone. I bled for you. I wanted to. Each drop my own. . Slowly they depart. But fall in vain. Like desert rain. And still they fall on and on and on.
(lieutenant). . what child. this night. whose dreams. take flight?. . what child. somewhere. sleeps. unaware?. . what life. that yet. has no. regrets?.
I have been this way before. Check each window. Every door. For a passage through. This night. This night. . But each hallway. Ends the same. Every door's been.
Time standing all alone. I bled for you. I wanted to. Each drop my own. . Slowly they depart. But fall in vain. Like desert rain. And still they fall on and on and on.
[Lieutenant]. . So you're caught in the night. Of a new firefight. In a jungle that's so hot that it. Steams. . An explosion just ahead. Does announce the newly dead.