In the Craters on the Moon

If the strain proves too much

Give up right away

If the light hurts your eyes

Stay in your room all day



When the room fills with smoke

Lie down on the floor

In the declining years

Of the long war



Well the blood's in the water

And the shark's gonna come

And we swim in the dark

Until our bodies are numb



Blind desert rats in the moonlight

Too far from shore

In the declining years

Of the long war



Empty room with a lightbulb

Where the phone starts to ring

Everybody gets nervous

Nobody says anything



The next day someone's initials

Show up on the door

I think I'm gonna crack

Can't live like this anymore



Ugly things in the darkness

Worse things in store

In the declining years

Of the long war