Artist/Band:
Calexico
Lyrics for Song: Sunken Waltz
Lyrics for Album: Feast of Wire [2003]
Washed my face in the rivers of Empire
Laid my bed from a cardboard crate
Down in a sea of quartz
No news, no new regrets
Tossed a Susan B. over my shoulder
Prayed it would rain and rain
Submerge the whole western states
Call it a last fair deal
With an American seal
In corporate handshake
Take the story of carpenter Mike
Who dropped his tools and his keys and left
And headed out as far as he could
Past the city and gated neighbourhoods
He slept 'neath the stars
Wrote down what he dreamt
And he built a machine
For a-no one to see
Then took flight, first light
Of the new morning
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