You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

That key you've got won't fit this lock no more

That key you've got won't fit this lock no more

You've been ducking, dodging

but you can't come home no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

That key you've got won't let you in my door

That key you've got won't let you in my door

My eyes have seen the glory and

The sound and image, synchronized

Right there on the silver screen

Heard the sounds suggesting

Lineage of influence, yeah

Saw it there in the motherland

Steps and gables, steeples, stairways

Wind away from origin

In untrampled vintage floats the proof

I cannot be freed

The concert stage, the velvet cage

The glass perimeter of me

All my friends are disappearing

All my letters are in codes

All I ever think and feel

In your shadow, it erodes

Waiting, waiting by the silent phone

I draft my next apology

Burn my letters once they're read

Unalloyed joy, I thrice repeat

Unalloyed joy

Unalloyed joy

Listen to what I just heard

It's written on the sun, jailbird

And just like you

The way it moves

A fog that creeps in, grinning always

In your hair

And in your hallways

Got detained in San Francisco

On your way to get fresh air

The didn't want you there

Juggled oranges, but no one cared

You've been ducking, dodging

but you can't come home no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

That key you've got won't fit that lock no more

That key you've got won't fit that lock no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

That key you've got won't fit that lock no more

That key you've got won't fit that lock no more

You've been ducking and dodging

but you can't come home no more

You've been ducking, dodging

but you can't come home no more

That key you've got won't won't let you in that door

That key you've got won't fit that lock no more

Lady Macbeth, rock me mama

Like my back ain't got no bone

Like clicks heard on the telephone

Like a sudden unhinged moan

That leaks out from your broken structure

Like a wall of unbound stone

They buried the eighth

They buried the ninth

They said the finale was a formal reply

They buried the eighth

They buried the ninth

They said the finale was a formal reply

They buried the eighth

They buried the ninth

Buried everything, I'm telling you guy

Contest prizes, grand pianos

Gagged by comfort, shamed by words

Empty anthems, cloaked in strange fur

Stripes and bars, is it yours?

Stripes and bars

Stripes and bars

Stripes and bars, and are you sure?

Stripes and bars will lock you in

Lock you in or camouflage you

Feel the sun, but cannot walk to

Hear the yelp, but cannot talk to

Trembling, cloaked in what you swore

Were stripes and bars

That's what they're for

You've been ducking, dodging but you can't come h