This road keeps changing names As we separate Someone should tell the city planner It should last forever No one remembers who they were named after Chips on our shoulders Dissipate like smoke signals
And someone killed the messenger Killed the messenger And someone cut all the lines And no one knows how to repair And someone burned the family tree All the way down to the roots And someone killed the messenger Killed the messenger
And the clock ticks on Only time will tell If there's still Time at all For the mark of reason
Of the people and places Rules of thumb and euphemisms Orgies and bloodlines and hand-me-downs Stories and paintings and moving pictures
The layers and liars of addiction Blinking and winking lights The bruises and broken limbs Are something someone wants
