Incandescent Blue

I sneaked across the border -- it was threatening rain --
 So I could stand in this tunnel, waiting for the roaring train
 And watch those black kids working out kung fu moves
 If you don't want to be the horses' hoofprints you got to be the hooves
 Hear that lonesome violin play
 See the notes float up into the overcast
 and change to white birds as they sail on through
 and soar away free into incandescent blue
 People getting ready behind all those rectangles of light
 "Put on your grin mask, babe, you know we're steppin out tonight"
 You hear that sound, like hammers only small?
 It's what the people's heads say when they beat them against the wall
 Hear that lonesome violin play
 See the notes float up into the overcast
 and change to white birds as they sail on through
 and soar away free into incandescent blue
 Concrete vortex sucks down the wind
 It's howling like a blinded violin.
 Oh -- tongues of fire, come and kiss my brow
 if I ever needed you, well I need you now
 Hear that lonesome violin play
 See the notes float up into the overcast
 and change to white birds as they sail on through
 and soar away free into incandescent blue