Dark Chandelier

歌詞

Tommy lies drunk on his own front lawn At three in the morning, his work shirt still on He curses the man, and he curses his boss And a cloud rolls past and the night grows dark Thirty-one years on the factory floor The grease and the motor, the seven to four And the face of his daughter, no child anymore His wife and his mother, his life and his love The heat and the rise of a burning shame The pride in the work and the years that he gave Just a flick of a pen, just a cold handshake What's a man really worth at the end of the day And Tommy he stands and the rain starts to fall He catches his step, and he heads for the car And he drives past the factory lights in the dark Just a man out of work, and a man out of luck And the bars all empty, the town asleep He presses the pedal, he tears up the street To the edge of the town, where the highway leads To the end of the world, to the end of a dream And racing the headlights, the clouds never clear And he's revving the engine, he's stripping the gears And the moon on the asphalt, his face in the mirror And the rain coming down like a dark chandelier And the radio blasting, a song about home He's flying so fast, he's leaving the ground And the beautiful lights as he's spinning around And the silent night when the lights go out And Tommy he wakes with the blood on his face The moon up above, and the cool falling rain He feels his body, and he hears his name In the scream of the siren, in the heat of the flame He calls for his daughter in the thick black night He tells that he loves her, he yells for his wife And he sees her above him, her dark, sad eyes And he pleads with his god, and he bargains with time And the rain falls harder, it washes away The blood and the fire, the fear and the shame And the sirens arrive and he screams and he prays To the moon in the sky, to the stars and the rain And nothing but mercy, the angels press The gold of their robes to the well of his breast And he opens his eyes, and he quietly says Don't take me tonight, I got work to do yet