The Grey Man Came Down the Lane Lyrics

Smokestacks on the horizon

A dynasty of snakes

Uninhabitable islands

The music of this place

The grey man came down the lane

And cast his gaze of silent warning

He tried to speak but could only hiss like

Some old tape recording

Derelict ships on the coastline

Alligators in the pond

Fragments of a scattered bloodline

Soda cans and BB guns

The hurricane picked up the house and

Set it several blocks away

But somehow left the magazines stacked

Neatly on the table

At our Lady of the Sorrows

The matriarch was eating cake

From here on out her time is borrowed

The good Lord giveth and he take

And when the storm had lifted

The only telephone was gone

There were dormers in the causeway

No telling when the help would come

The grey man came down the lane

And cast his gaze of silent warning

He tried to speak but could only hiss like

Some old tape recording

The hurricane picked up the house and

Set it several blocks away

But somehow left the magazines stacked

Neatly on the table