Already Yesterday

It's already yesterday

We're off the calendar

I heard the sirens play

Just like an orchestra

Mechanical bird of prey

Sing for your emperor

Last broken flash of love

Still in the camera

We don't feel those locks and chains

We won't listen to the lizard part of our brains

Giving the orders

Another morning we'll be gone

I start the car for Ten Mile Beach

Or maybe Avalon

Across the water

It's already yesterday

And nobody's answering

Disconnected, drift away

Nobody's questioning

Head of silver, feet of clay

Who is surrendering

They fall in our heyday

I am remembering

We can't feel those aches and pains

We won't listen to the voices in the city rain

Giving the orders

Another morning I'll be gone

I start the car for Violet Town

And then to Babylon

Over the border