Beach For Buzzards (New Version) Lyrics

Walking past a place for rocks and sand to rest

A modest patch of nature pressed against concrete lives

Pathetic strips of what was once enchanted, sacred ground

Now a beach for buzzards seeking a new nest

Decades pass in beats, and futures must erode

The girls of summer yesteryear have become old wives

Robotic though organic, they assume their patterns, bound

Never taking exits on this pointless road

Thirteen, fourteen, twenty years or more

Seems so unimportant with the way things went

Empty, dreaming, lusting, wanting more

But it's all for nothing with the way things went

Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat

Rotting like the dream that was

I never really knew the way to you

Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat

Memories are just a buzz

I never really tried to make it through

Frozen in a trance, condemned to ruminate

A lonely place of dying, set among straws and shells

Ghosts that are still clinging to threadbare ends of foolish plots

Under watchful buzzards, contemplating fate

Fifteen or sixteen, but who is keeping score

All the years are empty baggage since our path bent

Seventeen or eighteen, oh, why not add a little more

Still so unimportant with the way things went

Can you even hear the waves crashing at all

Or do your ears no longer receive

Signals from regions beyond the sky

Do you ever hear the pulse from that lost fall

Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat

Rotting like the dream that was

I never really knew the way to you

Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat

Memories are just a buzz

I never really tried to make it through

You're not the one I really want

Despite the attraction

And even that is not so real

You're just the one that seems to haunt

There's no satisfaction

And even this I cannot feel

Seaweed, bones, and sand, and the tiny specks of meat

Rotting like the dream that was

I never really knew the way to you

Bleeding from the hand, with stigmata I can't treat

Memories are just a buzz

I never really tried to make it through

And now there is no way to you

I know there is no way to you

And even if I'd muddled through

There never was a way to you

Or you