The News About William-Calexico

[00:14.53]4 in the morning the sidewalk's asleep [00:19.65]Dogs on the porch, [00:21.15] [00:21.77]Spiders on the leaf [00:23.70] [00:24.64]Shipwrecked by night sailing through days [00:28.70] [00:29.95]Nobody noticed the slipping away [00:34.19] [00:43.18]Connecting the dots [00:44.80] [00:45.48]with thorns in his side [00:47.42] [00:48.23]Boarded up the Windows [00:50.79]with pain and with pride [00:52.78] [00:53.66]The music box broken that [00:56.40]once was his soul [00:58.21] [00:59.09]Its sad little song spinning out of control [01:03.52] [01:09.13]Then came the storm that washed the roads out [01:28.16]Closed both his eyes and pointed straight south [01:32.22] [01:33.53]Second line drums marched into the sea [01:38.40]While the clouds overhead cried "mutiny" [01:42.95] [01:44.26]They parted for Cathy and her bitter news [01:48.57] [01:49.63]As her words fail and the sky grew dim [01:54.19] [01:54.75]Recalled how close to that exit I've been [01:59.05] [02:10.47]Ours not to reply, ours not to reason why [02:18.46] [02:20.83]The news about William [02:23.14] [02:23.89]The lifeline retreats [02:25.45] [02:26.32]Desire for release [02:28.07] [02:29.25]The thorns in his side