Shopping Carts & Trash Lyrics - Singles - Aeon Now

The leaves are on the wind tonight 

the city grinds and hums 

I cat tongued to pass through the glow 

of sodium lights on a concrete wall 

through the factories and railroad tracks 

through shopping carts and trash 

where bottles broke in fits of mirth 

where weeds spring forth from trampled earth 

my mouth is sewn my hands are bound 

my dreams are cased in stone 

my memory in charcoal draws a flower 

the wind is blowing through the trees 

casting leaves upon the night 

a train is passing through the yard 

pulsing light between its cars 

and from each box car's passing door 

a ghastly vision peers 

it sends a tremor through my skin 

for in each car I see again 

specter watching from beyond 

that's bound to ride like me 

reappearing in each passing car 

it's eyes sunk in like dying stars 

and wherefore has this vision come 

that none should see but me 

it's face like what my mirror shows 

displays my fate from choices chose 

fate not sealed not carved in stone 

still a different path it excludes 

choices yet to make with trains 

to ride or lay down on the main 

I feel a chill like shards of rime 

and light a cigarette 

I shudder because freedom found 

and maybe it's time to leave this town 

so puttin' out my cigarette 

I take my pack up from the ground 

in the wind that blows before a rain 

the fated one runs toward a train