Cleanse Song - Bright Eyes

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows

It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow

See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan

From the roof of a friend’s, I watched an empire ending

Heard it loud and long, the river’s song

Time marching on, to a mad man’s drum

Don’t forget what you’ve learned

All you give is returned

And if life seems absurd

What you need is some laughter

And a season to sleep

And a place to get clean

Maybe Los Angeles

Somewhere no one’s expecting

On a detox walk

Through a Glendale Park

Over sidewalk chalk

Some wrote in red, «start over»

So I muffle my scream

On an Oxnard beach

Full of fevered dreams that scare you sober

Into saltless dinners

Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth

Is it bitter or sweet all depends on your timing

Like a meeting of chance

With a train station glance

Many lifetimes have passed in a instant reminded

Of a millstone house in a seaside town

When your heart gave out in a mission bed

So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge

As you woke up purged as a wailing infant

In Krung Thep, Thailand

Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows

It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow