The Scourge Of The Sea - Goodbye, Darkness lyrics

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