Bruce *****burn - Birmingham Shadows Lyrics
BirminghamJust behind the mountainSparse streelamps glow in hot half-moon hazeShadows shorten into little black pools that elongate behindWe walk, talk some, laugh someWorked hard, now wired, and hanging outI'm curious what you might be all aboutCurious, too, what that dark-shape in the hard shining cruiser might doAnd you have no idea what you're gettingout of of your own curiosity and tense energyTattoo on chest like the key to the puzzle of your pumping heartWearing your shadows all over your sleeveWearing the role of young upstartChorus:Birmingham shadows fallYou show a little, I let something show tooIt's now or not at allOut on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-youUnder velvet trees, towering like the sides of a wellBefore the empty two office blocksWhich we're admonished not to enterPoliceman studies us, finds us confusingMore amusing than threatMoves on, bemusedPavement spirals down ahead like the fossil of a giant shellAlong the kingdom's midnight marchesI wear my shadows where they're harder to seeBut they follow me everywhereI guess that should tell me that I'm travelling toward lightI guess something you sang made me remember thatI guess I'm saying thanks for thatChorus:Birmingham shadows fallYou show a little, I let something show tooIt's now or not at allOut on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-you(Instrumental Break)Got a head full of horrors and a heart full of nightAt home in the darkness, but hungry for dawnI only remember scenes, never the stories I liveThe good things about that is, it's easy to forgiveCan't make assumptions about any of thisWe're nomads following our own songlinesWho knows what could strike before we meet again?But if I fall down and dieWithout saying goodbyeI give you this: you'll have lost a friendChorus:Birmingham shadows fallYou show a little, I let something show tooIt's now or not at allOut on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-you
