Agastopian Blues Lyrics

Here in the city

Swathed in shadowed silk

Smoke spilling from buildings

Like currents of milk

Night clutches the moon

With her misshapen want

As I tread the path

To my threadbare haunts

We fought every war

Lost all we could lose

Now all the birds sing is

Agastopian blues

The sheriff and I pulled up

To the lonesome red light

He turning left

I turning right

He looked at me with sympathy

Foreign in his gaze

The only thing I could do

Was turn the wheel and look away

They broke every fence

Painted each little bruise

The northern lights wail

Agastopian blues

There are echoes of hollow memory

Reminding the remaining souls

Of the way that things used to be

Reminding my aching limbs

Of what the world wants from me

Is there solace in forgiveness

Is there peace in resistance

We fought every war

Lost all we could lose

Now all the birds sing is

Agastopian blues

They broke every fence

Painted each little bruise

The northern lights wail

Agastopian blues