And something warm and soft just passed through here

It took the precious things that I hold dearer

It rifled through the grey and disappeared

The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare

In a dentist′s chair

Sucking in the air

Wire across the stair

Kicking down the door

At your local store

With the world at war

Voices through the floor

Unexpected news

Wearing high-heeled shoes

Blowing out the fuse

Paying all your dues

Deadwing lullaby

Like a fracture tied

It's a worthless lie

To the public eye

I don′t take waifs and strays back home with me

My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes I'd have to say I like my privacy

And did you know you're on closed-circuit TV?

So smile at me

And a dream you had

Of your mum and dad

On a beach somewhere

And the poison air

With the cancer threat

In a cigarette

Deadwing lullaby

Find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train

A specter from the next life breathes his fog on the pane

I look with you into the speeding black rain

Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I′ve lost you

I throw a window open wide and step through