Jukebox The Ghost - Beady Eyes On The Horizon lyrics

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There's a dead man hanging, slumped over the steering wheel of an interstate<br />

Runaway bursting into flames<br />

And the devil was gently breathing, sleeping face-down in my<br />

Apartment, and like all his friends I'm growing tired of his games... <br />

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And there's a homeless man arranging his hands, grooving to the beat<br />

Radiating from a police scanner, who said "The air was feeling good to<br />

Me, just as cool and ripe as air can be," and a woman who sincerely<br />

Believes in UFOs and who can blame her when the stars are hanging<br />

Overhead, dangling by a thread, floating ten thousand feet off the ground... <br />

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(This was a story told to me when I was just the age of 17, one which<br />

God himself dictated to me, he said, "This is how all this shits gonna<br />

Be when I blow your little planet into smithereens." It haunted my<br />

Dreams like an accident on reply on a TV screen.)<br />

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She sees faces in her dreams--strange machines she'd never seen<br />

Blueprints of submarines to reassemble in a time of dire need<br />

And there were preachers in the desert, waving to the crowd<br />

Dictating seven angry letters from a man up in the clouds<br />

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And there were 27 soldiers telling 27 lies<br />

And a hole inside a hurricane with a pair of beady eyes<br />

A pair of beady eyes looking down onto the pavement while the stars are gathered 'round<br />

Because they all will want a front seat when shit starts going down<br />

Because the sun is just a supernova turned the other way around! <br />

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There were strangers in the subway and men in limousines making deals and<br />

Swapping photographs of cans of gasoline, and there are no angels in the woodwork<br />

Or devils on the ground, and they are looking through a hurricane's tectonic wall of<br />

Sound and a man who smokes his cigarettes the other way around and she is looking<br />

In behind him from inside a wall of sound and she is dancing with the neon because<br />

The air is feeling good against her arms and legs and fingertips are measuring the<br />

Distance in the spaces in between me and you and all your friends when there's no<br />

Time to load a weapon and no time to make amends and people frozen in their tracks<br />

Staring at the sky at a hole inside a hurricane revealing... <br />

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A pair of beady eyes! <br />

A pair of beady eyes looking down onto the pavement while the stars are gathered 'round<br />

Because they all will want a front seat when shit starts going down<br />

Because the sun is just a supernova turned the other way around! <br />

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This is not a test, this is the real thing... <br />

This is not a test, this is the real thing...</