In truth, I had the perfect face
X-ray eyes and hammer hands
Your summer eyes were full of gra**
And letters to the common man
But I leapt a building every day to keep the town from burning down
And laid low in the lamplight for a touch, a sight, a smell, a sound
The water's tainted by the sky
The teenage girls, by God most high
There's nothing left here to defend, so
Goodbye, darkness, my old friend
Say, have the days surrendered to
The nights and knives and empty rooms?
Our boredom crimes can run us through
To fold our hands in open tombs
But I ran the river to the sea on top of waves and alcohol
Still all the while, my hammer heart thrashed on my ribs and broke my fall
The soil is tainted by our blood
The sidewalks by the western mud
There's nothing left here to defend, so
Goodbye, darkness, my old friend
The city cries to sleep at night
And leaks my name down dirty streets
I want to love the fire light
On faces that I burn to meet
But I lost my love to the brown paper bag, and I tied a jackal to my leg
And prayed a miracle might come and begged I wouldn't have to beg
But my baby's tainted by my tongue
The cigarette smoke by my lungs
There's nothing left here to defend, so
Goodbye, darkness, my old friend