Picket Fences On Fire Lyrics

A flash of flame

And a plume of smoke

I don't think that's how

It was supposed to go

Helicopters fly every night

Sirens flashing red and blue lights

Picket fences on fire

Spray the streets with insecticide

Christmas Eve there was a drive-by

Man I miss those times

I closed

My mouth

Listened

To your sounds

You said

It's all love

Red-faced

I shut up

Everything comes out in the chlorine

Let these chemicals purify me

I see ghosts dancing in the trees

Faces of love in the flooded streets

There goes love

There goes death

There goes the pain

When there's nothing left

I close

My eyes

To sleep

At night

I see

Your light

Expanding

On all sides

Through the corpses of cars

Half-buried in the front yard

'Round broken street lights

Hanging above the dark

A signal radiates out from the hills

Through all space and time

I can hear it still

A cold wind blows

Through the heart of the heat

Throws it's glow

Down on every street

Carries us floating

As we sleep

As we dream

As we dream

Sit and listen to the night time song

The whip-poor-wills always know when someone's gone