Chains

Midnight I stare out the window from my room I hear the dogs, it’s going to be dawn soon I wonder where you are In my mind’s eye I’m floating alone in the night sky The treetops, the buildings beneath me I feel my heart beating So I try to find anything To kill the time, to quiet my mind There’s got to be something There’s got to be someone Else still awake, in this city I can’t take Another night, and I can’t stay I’ve got to break, to break, to break These chains away The bars close We stumble around through the echoes Hiding our past in some old clothes Like it’s some dirty secret And I see your face in the passing light It’s no good tonight I’m tired of putting up this fight There’s got to be somewhere There’s got to be someone Else still awake, in this city I can’t take Another night, and I can’t stay I’ve got to break, to break, to break These chains away They lean into the wind Riding on nerves and choking engines Built for a time now fifty years gone I can hear them whispering at the dawn When I’m alone in this cell With ten thousand words and nowhere to go And I wish you could know How much I still need you The spell of this town The graves on the hill lit up like a crown The names on the signs, I can’t even say How to break, to break, to break these chains away Sometimes I feel the pain at the heart of this ember All these ashes I choke on Does anyone remember where we came from? Why we came to a place with no center And no edge, and no end?