[Verse 1]
This is the window where
I watched the future start
My pupils dilated
The shock sped up my arms
I shut my ambushed eyes
Turned my face towards the heat

[Verse 2]
I felt the city choke
I heard the world at war
I prayed for providence
God said, "Don't pray no more
You went and made your mess
Keep your blame off my feet"

[Verse 3]
So I got off my knees
I faced the devil's day
The sky was murder red
The streets were headstone gray
A flaming Ferris wheel
Spun where the sun used to be

[Chorus 1]
And I watched its buckets dip and dance
I saw a couple making love lock hands
They were pushing for abandon and the answers it could bring
Ninety million miles from the graveyard growing over everything
[Verse 4]
I watch my lover chased
Through fields of sugarcane
She clutched her belly close
She whispered, "Keep us safe"
They ground her down to dust
No more miracles today

[Verse 5]
So I dreamt myself awake
In a resort hotel
Above a golden coast
Inside my southern belle
We heard the sea reborn
In each singing shell

[Verse 6]
And every coughing car
And every coiled snake
And every shrieking star
And every burning stake
Dissolved to atmosphere
All of everything, erased

[Chorus 2]
I spread into a distant hum
I droned along with everyone
And the earth grew green and nursed herself to what she used to be
All our senseless shouting calmed to quiet in her ancient memory
[Outro]
And oh, what a joy to be free
And oh, what a joy to be free
And oh, what a joy to be free
And oh, what a joy to finally be free
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