07 / Romantic Collapse
Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Sleep
The phone has gone to silence the porch light won't be lit mama stopped her praying she just listens where the darkness sits The road out south got quiet the fence got razor wire somebody's boy went missing somebody lit a fire And we all pretend we're sleeping En la tierra de nadie vivimos así con los ojos cerrados fingiendo dormir y la luna no alumbra lo que no quiere ver en la tierra de nadie qué vamos a hacer His boots remain beside the door his coffee cup untouched we tiptoe past his bedroom like the dead can hear too much The neighbors brought their silence wrapped in cellophane that's how you learn the dialect of a town that runs on pain And we all pretend we're sleeping En la tierra de nadie vivimos así con los ojos cerrados fingiendo dormir y la luna no alumbra lo que no quiere ver en la tierra de nadie qué vamos a hacer She walks the dirt road savage a photograph like a blade asking men who built their houses on the graves that they made The priest just locks the chapel the mayor sold his soul the ones who know are buried the ones who buried know And we all pretend we're sleeping En la tierra de nadie vivimos así con los ojos cerrados fingiendo dormir y la luna no alumbra lo que no quiere ver en la tierra de nadie qué vamos a hacer They found a shoe beside the river they found a name burned off a wall the water doesn't judge us the water takes us all And somewhere past the highway where the crosses split the hill the wind rips through the plastic flowers and nothing's ever still And we all pretend we're sleeping En la tierra de nadie vivimos así con los ojos cerrados fingiendo dormir y la luna no alumbra lo que no quiere ver en la tierra de nadie qué vamos a hacer The children draw with crayons houses that don't exist the teacher bites her tongue until she tastes blood on her lips Another year burns down to ash another name gets crossed we all pretend we're sleeping in the land of the lost En la tierra de nadie vivimos así con los ojos cerrados fingiendo dormir y la luna no alumbra lo que no quiere ver en la tierra de nadie qué vamos a hacer And we all pretend we're sleeping and we all pretend we're sleepingBack to The Land of Silver and Sorrow