[Verse 1]

When you get back on the M train

Watch the city mutate

Where do you go when your mind starts

To lose its perfected shape?

Virtuosic, idealistic

Musing a fall from grace

I guess the dead just go on living

At the darkest edge of space

[Verse 2]

When you get back home to St. Cloud

Watch the new world project

A rousing image, scorched earth swinging

Supernatural and complex

And I might show up in a white dress

Turn reluctance on its ear

If the dead just go on living

Well, there's nothing left to fear

[Verse 3]

If you burn slow, burning slow

On your own roof, yell what you know

Burning slow, burning slow

Burning slow, burning slow

[Verse 4]

And when I go, when I go

Look back at me, embers aglow

When I go, when I go

When I go, when I go