Hanging From A Hit

[Verse 1] What this night wants is what it gets Strung in silken knots Lit by cigarettes flaring side by side With the streets all wet As the only thing that's bright [Verse 2] And I don't need to cross that bridge I find I'm swinging or sailing over the pit tonight I'm hanging from a hit tonight Was wild enough to order up and toss across my lips [Verse 3] What's making all my tears Is taking all my fears away But I don't need to cry Because now I'm clear [Verse 4] A moth that's swerving through the sage A creature crashing from a cage A shadow vaporized by a new sun ray [Verse 5] A day she spends the night And I can hear her sighing As she's almost asleep on one side I lie back on my pillow And ask what her husband is like [Verse 6] And she says, "I smile polite And I tip and tithe And I see the sights with a well-trained eye But I calmly cry Because I'm too much mine without him [Verse 7] And I lie, reclined where the room is quiet And it's quiet at night The soft silk is fine And the waves are white But the wind has died without him [Verse 8] And I scream my smiles And I want my wires and I need my stripes And I read the lines until I lid my eyes And I'm losing time without him [Verse 9] And she says And I ignite inside And I flash with fire And I limp from life And I'm blazing blind And I'm surging live And give up my mind When with him [Verse 10] And then every dream inside Turns to flames, fades to grey and is dying And the smoke rises into A white, blank, bare, broke-open sky