A Zero For A Heart Lyrics

I saw a ghost

Underneath the apple tree

By the bend

Where the river runs cold

Now there's a highway

Where the meadow used to be

And the land, and our hearts

Were all sold

They came to town

With money and mendacity

And we all

Came to hear what they say

Now there's a dam

Over by the cemetery

And you can't

Cross the bridge

'Less you pay

And all the ghosts

Sing in the darkness

Of the cold and the heartless

Keeping us apart

And of the man

With a hole in his soul

And a pocket full of gold

And a zero for a heart

There was a house

Over by the apple tree

Where we lived

And we thought we'd grow old

Now there's a hole

In everybody's memory

And we don't even know what we sold

They came to town

With collateral and chemistry

And they showed us

An illusion in light

Now there's a dam

Over by the cemetery

And you don't

Ever walk there at night

And all the ghosts

Under the water

Every son, every daughter

Written on a chart

By the man

With a hole in his soul

And a pocket full of gold

And a zero for a heart

I saw a ghost

Underneath the apple tree

And all the ghosts

Cry in the moonlight

Cry how the black & white

Has driven us apart

Because the man

With a hole in his soul

Has a pocket full of gold

And a zero for a heart