Lyrics

Beauty, kin to blindness Remind us that we need not look away But fix our roving eyes upon The only road we're travelin' today And follow tuneless troubled rhymes Through the ancient garden vines We kiss and leave our girls to wine Left inside the bottle When I couldn't talk to you, my friend I vowed to push no better than I'd steer Let intuition run the band To somewhere bad, then better, back to here Now the old myth lying travеl-worn Cryin' 'peace' and whispering 'war' It's midnight on thе bathroom floor Before they really hear you Oh my darling (Oh my darling) Still the vile winds that howl Turn us roses back to weeds I implore your mercy now To keep from talking (To keep from talking) We slaved from can to can't And found ourselves inside the simple, sad art of the tramp Fizzy water, sad cafe The Turkish in Italian play The music of a rainy day Their arks are made for raining I'm blue smoke on the Black Canal I'm Mississippi but I don't know how To turn around and take a bow Even if that seems played out I can't get down and I shan't get down Melodies still roll around Below empty, it's hard for me All silver tape and frayin' Oh my darling Still the vile winds that howl Turn these roses back to weeds I implore your mercy now It takes forever For the circle's endless vamp To go round and round and round and round The sad eyes of you tramp Like rings around the moon Like rings around the moon Like rings around the moon Legally drunk as the sun goes down Would you cry if I died or just sit around? Pass the buck to the next diamond crown Or sell yourself short at the lost and found I bought that brain at a five and dime Traded 'er in for a better time You came home to see my dry eyes cryin' Like everything melts into once in a while Through the tears and fears of another man's life We've come to the middle all stuck to the knife I sailed them away on a runaway kite I packed up my car and I moved to the night Threw darts at the moon Danced on the sun Cheered like the devil so sure that I'd won But every little pound felt like a ton Coming down on me, spoiled my fun So how'd you get so broken down? How'd you get so broken down? How'd you get so broken down? Beauty, kin to blindness Remind us we need not look away