Tension Lyrics - 10,000 Maniacs

Frail hinges pivot on 

A cases door, commemorative 

Souvenirs from places 

Containers change, each occasion 

Cellophane encased 

Displaying paper certificate 

The credit years of service 

A tool of central enterprises 

The early hope for permanence 

The words the rings, consistency 

And social security 

The miracles, high tragedy 

A thought mistaken for a memory 

Dress lengths, assassinations 

Fractured family ties 

And christenings 

Local posts they list your friends 

In order, disappearance 

Lawn scattered tins, feed birds 

The portion baked for absent guests 

And the mass edition icon 

God sent comfort, your salvation 

But who grants absolution 

For sins that never were committed? 

Tension makes a tangle of 

Each thought becomes inconvenience 

Sound doesn't ever penetrate 

As servile edges break and faint 

A thought mistaken for a memory 

Clear the dust from smiles in boxes 

Cross a patterned wall 

Recall the voices 

A thought mistaken for a memory 

Dress lengths, assassinations 

Fractured family ties 

And christenings and christenings 

All fractured family ties 

And christenings 

And christenings