The Dial-Tone Is My Only Friend Songtext

Two blocks from the factory where boys become men and the air is stagnant / plumes of smoke rise before the setting sun / and the ashes fall like snow / drifting down slowly without haste / the black tipped leaves, i catch them in my eyes / and when i can't see, i'll sleep / but the snow will continue to fall / labor, now, labor / work lights mount the stars and ride them away / i can't see the moon, i can't dream anymore / and i knock the phone off the hook / the nights are gone, only days remain / the dial-tone is my only friend
a dream, perfect and fragile, like lightning in the sunshine / wrestling till dawn for a glimpse / until morning carried you away and left me on my back trying to remember the dream / please hang up and try again