Wish You Well

He wrote a name with the needle gun
 In black and blue
 Your eyes are stone, she said
 Beautiful and dead
 And I wish you well
 I took a turn on this carousel
 How long ago now, I never can tell
 I never stopped to wonder
 Maybe a morning, maybe a thousand years
 I only walk high wires
 Attend a needing
 The magnolia's dying
 Long coarse and primitive
 I wish love, lord
 I wish love could live, forever
 What I once saw burning bright as hell
 Now here comes that weird chill
 I don't stop to wonder
 Oh-oh
 Threaded a name
 Through the needle's eye
 As a frame
 Tied the ends and stitched it up
 And hung my head down and wept
 But I wish you well
 Who'll pray for the killer's sake
 I used to be so wide awake
 Like certain mornings
 That last a thousand hours
 Long coarse and primitive
 I wish love, lord
 I wish love could live forever
 I'm burning bright as hell
 Here comes that weird chill
 But I wish you well
 Your eyes are stone, she said
 Truly beautiful and dead
 I wish you well
 I want to ride on this carousel
 But I never really stopped to wonder