close your eyes and you draw one more day to a close you choose to be alone you float through your life as a ghost and everything heals given time and everything dies given time and the scars run together they re mixing the nerves with the blood and the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down and all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground when your heart s deep and dark as a well and everything that s golden and green goes to hell and i was born to wind in the cradle and i ride on the hard southern breeze and i twist in the green and the gold and you see and there s mud on my elbows and feet and people wanna grow old in the cradle when the snake s all around in the reeds and you ask me to fear of no evil when your fire s all over my feet and the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down and all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground when your heart s deep and dark as a well and everything that s golden and green goes to hell i said bring out your vivian girls bring out your cloud covered pearls and bring me a cup of your tears and give me the rest of your years because everything dies given time and i know that this world could be mine so i close both my eyes and i count my heartbeats and i know that my wings are on fire fire my wings are on fire  and the soldiers light houses on fire and they burn down and all your belongings turn to dirt in the ground when your heart s deep and dark as a well and everything that s golden and green when your heart s deep and dark as a well and everything that s golden and green when your heart s deep and dark as a well and everything that s golden and green goes to hell