[Verse 1]
Goodbye, circus wheel
May you rest along the seas
I have given you the fire of my youth
And the triumph of my enemies
And goodbye, fair weather home
And your faithless factories
I have given you the blood and the truth
From the wounds that they laid on me

[Pre-Chorus]
And whatever they left
I kept it for my own heart

[Chorus]
And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret
My baby, on and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were ever the sons in the songs

[Verse 2]
And now my lights, they never go down
They waltz the moon and the stars for me now
So you can find some local libertine
To take your daughters out on the town
And I can feel it in my aging bones
How the sound of the rain mixes up
Into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood
[Pre-Chorus]
And so I left you to find
My very own hat full of rain

[Chorus]
And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret
My baby, on and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were ever the sons in the songs

[Bridge]
And now I'm trying to keep it straight
Learning all the streets and the alleyways
And learning where they lead now that I'm left alone here to drive
But it's so hard to stand on your own
Against mirrored glass hot and cold
But the clothes I wore just don't fit my soul anymore
No, the clothes I wore just don't fit my soul anymore

[Chorus]
And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret
My baby, on and on and on, how the alphabet boys carry on
And we were orphans before we were ever the sons of your songs

[Outro]
When we were young
We were diamond Sinatras
Like something I saw in a dream
We kept our secrets and rules
Locked up tight like a tomb
Where the ballerinas lay