[Verse 1]
Now there's a crank in every crowd sprinkling gunpowder
Seems that everything is about to blow
They lit the burning paper with a waxen taper
Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]
And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours
Where all of the nightmares go
Watching the pipeline as it overflowed
Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 2]
He made a fortune out of barbed wire in the last days of the Empire
Built a cast-iron curtain just to keep control
He was a tycoon, then a cheapskate, went out looking for a keepsake
To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]
And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours
Where all of the nightmares go
Watching the pipeline as it overflowed
Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 3]
He had a satchel full of cash and dishes full of ashes
He went from boom to bust in the blinking of a lash
Heard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol
Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's Row
[Chorus]
And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours
Where all of the nightmares go
They're calling for 'em slowly, now the war is over
Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[Bridge]
The woman in a blindfold
She doesn't want her hand held
Walking through a minefield
Saying "How does this feel?"
Stepping on the quicksand
Going down slow
Hiding up here on Viceroy's Row

[Verse 4]
Nothing satisfies the ruins of his blue eyes
Like blood stains on a diamond mine
And deep within you felt not one measure of his guilt
Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]
Yet her penitent lover took a ribbon of rubber
Tied her to the bed made of silken thread
But without an ounce of mercy, they denounced him with a curse
Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's Row
[Verse 4]
Now his little concubine in her cemetery drag
Her face all smeared with charcoal is leaving all her cares, so
Take 500 acres and see what you can sow
We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's Row

[Chorus]
And they're gathering flowers in the crack of hours
Where all of the nightmares go
Watching the pipeline as it overflowed
Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row