Peter Gabriel - Slowburn Lyrics
Were character actors from the tower of babelBewildered, burnt out, hardly ableTo sit astride the high wire cableIts hard to balance, a little unstable.Through broken eyes and contact lenseswatched you draw your future tensesSee kisses of flame blow out of your lipsYoure back telling me your apocalypse.Dont get me wrong, Ill be strongWhen the slowburn sunset come alongYouve gotta stay the nightI gotta think that you might.Weve tried a hanful of bills and a handful of pillsWeve tried making movies from a volume of stillsBut the words fell like hailstones,Bouncing at our feetCovering our feelings with a frozen sheet.A chance to move, I take a shotI get cold -- you get hotWe look outside, lyin awakeSee birds breaking surface on a silent lake.But dont get me wrong, Ill be strongWhen Im back on the isle of avalonDont get me wrong, Ill be strongWhen the slow burn sunset come alongYouve got to stay the nightIve got to think that you might.Dont try to make it easy, itll cut you down to sizeDarlin weve got to trust in somethingWere shooting down our skiesShooting down our skies.
