Third or Fourth Lyrics

Down on the riverbank

I felt that icy arm again

Before it put the clamp on me I clambered back to shore

When I gave my ticket to the ferryman

He waved me come on in

One-way or round trip

Which would you prefer

Do you picture yourself

As a future suicide

Waiting for the chamber with the bullet inside

If you wait by patiently

You might be third or fourth in line

When you infer farewell from tolling bells

I called you

But you could not see me through the wire

A grinning mouth was seen in a cyclone of falling leaves

It said, "That's all for everyone

That's all for everyone

Hush your worried mind"

They found the wizard's body

Frozen on the mountainside

The wand he waved was no defense to save him from the cold

On descending where the air was thicker

They lost their appetite

Never asked the questions

They'd wanted answers for

Do you picture yourself

As a future suicide

Expecting the slack to go and draw the rope tight

If you wait a million years

You might be third or fourth in line

When the sunset carves your silhouette

As soon as

You take the apple from the apple tree

A disembodied voice will say "That tree belongs to me"

That's all for everyone

That's all for everyone

Hush your worried mind