Saturation and Light

A flash in the dark, a knock on the table Beautiful dreamer, pitiful failure Hanging from a high wire Floating through the fireflies Dreaming in the golden glow In the haze and smoke In the saturation and light Turns you out cold caught in a wire As you try, try, try, try, try While the whole world passes you by A knock on the door, a gossip, a fable Making the scene in full regalia Standing in a long line Tangled in the wasted time Every little minute you stay in it You blame yourself And it cuts in you like a knife And you bleed out into the night As you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry While the whole world passes you by Spent your days in a ruin Nobody there calming you So many contrary thoughts And emotions cutting through I can't move Washing over me Every day we waste Is gone now Clawing the banks of the muddy Missouri Beautiful dreamer woke up in the cooler Drowning in the hard times Clinging to the power lines You couldn't let 'em go And now you use it to hang yourself For the goddamn rest of your life Running out low, hanging to dry As you try, try, try, try, try While the whole world passes you by