I Will Return Songtext

and the city stood in a glowing splendor 'til her ashes were laid in an urn beneath a fast food counter i will return the descendants were born and they danced their dances then the sound of their stmbling was great tilting the world off it's axis i will return and the women gazed in their mirrors suitors brought them vials of perfume (quiet leves of desperation) then golden-haired locusts with the faces of angels sealed each of them up in a metal cocoon and the life ran out just when it all seemed better here is a display in a granite museum a shame on view forever i will return and the birdcage was eventually opened a great flock of nuns flew away (meeting no one's expectations) and the saints who had slept on the head of a pin came down from the sky at the end of all days repeat first verse i will return (i will be coming like a thief in the night) i will return (i will be coming like a thief in the night), etc.