Tunnel Vision Lyrics

I walked through a narrow tunnel

Where I could not run for fear

And when I made it through the tunnel

I called it a year

Please mother don't be angry

Though I may deserve a slap

For leaving all your money


In some total stranger's lap

That's an altar on the mantle

Just a flower in a vase

Love and murder in one circle


Show a poet how to praise

Dear father, don't be sorry


It was time that drove us down

We'll return with pockets empty


Of the treasure that we found


We were steady in the fever


Where the flying thoughts are pearled


And I believe we touched the lever

If we could not move the world

Now lover don't look weary


To find me still so shy

After all the fire and glory

There's only you and I

And when we falter in the fever


And we cannot keep our place

Then our blood is of the river


That runs through open space