The carbon on the fingerprint
That's lifted from the lighter's flint
That caused another smoker's squint
Who sees the point but not the light;
Salvation
And rabble-rousing diatribes
Revealing more for what it hides
Who plays a little off the sides
Who swears they can sin in spite
Of salvation

The gavel of the auctioneer
The bureau with the cracked veneer
It's going, going, gone but you're not here
So I laughed until I cried
Then I chose another side
When you asked me to decide
Between you and staying alive

The horoscope says let it go
The devil is the one you know
The one you love's a domino
A bull with glass and diamond eyes
And salvation
But everywhere is two way glass
And double locks and easy pass
Turn oxygen to laughing gas
Give skeletons for Valentine's
Salvation
The gavel of the auctioneer
The bureau with the cracked veneer
It's going, going, gone but you're not here
So I laughed until I cried
Then I chose another side
When you asked me to decide
Between you and staying alive