Dawn In Breaking Lyrics - Angels

(Brewster-Neeson-Brewster) 

(Remember looking at the haunted grace bow down to the storm? 

remember searching for a familiar face with no one there 

to mourn?) 

Staring at silent screens 

plastic tubes to carry fading dreams 

preacher, servant in their hall 

warm blood on the palace wall 

those who dine alone in hell 

wearing grief in their lapel 

drop small change in wishing wells 

the haunted tear that never fell 

someone's dragging a ball and chain 

looking for you in the pouring rain 

while those who care give silent prayer for lovers going home 

If there was a brickwall surrounding the New York scene 

if there were secrets locked in steel 

if there was a button you could press on the luck machine 

if there was a place for wounds to heal 

if you were borne in the barbwire of your mother's womb 

if you were hungry before you died 

if you say you left your bath all clean and white 

you know, I know you lied 

remember the poet who said it first 

he was speaking of you and your difficult birth 

how you can say a prayer for lovers going home 

Drinking from an empty cup 

waiting for the rot to grow 

distant sounds that can't be heard 

and no one knows 

children who don't mind the rain 

yet have no wish to die 

whatever your own world could've been 

you'd feel better if you could cry 

Dawn is breaking in the graveyard 

People massing in the street 

trampled heards beneath their feet 

children playing with the dead 

silver spoon stained with red 

watching through a widow's veil 

as Caesar desecrates the Holy Grail 

you sit all alone in your front row seat 

you look so small and frail 

you're mud on the feet of the men you've damned 

you're darkness come too soon 

you should be selling two-bit watches and girly photographs 

masterpiece in ruin 

you're pantomime of old world courtesy 

you should have a degree for how-o-lotry 

you should be a hazard agent in an apartment tower 

with no technology 

did you ever listen to the poles opposed to you 

did you ever stop to ask? 

did you ever smile and hide your wasted lips 

did you ever lift your mask? 

did you ever walk with your feet on by 

till they take your place in line? 

did you know that you belong 

where wrong is right and right is wrong? 

did you really think that you'd be left where 

power is life and life is death? 

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