When you add your voice to bad choices
Then your noise, so white, becomes mammoth
It's dripping down the walls like quicksilver
Dripping down us slowly as Saturn
Bridge
And for you, the Pulitzer prize
Just step into traffic
Now in you, the Americas
You broke through, you loved 'em
verse 2
We have found a use for the profane
Searching for the gods in the corners
With the ignorance of the poet
And unbreakable focus of martyrs
Oh darling share the shade
Oh darling share the shade
Interlude
verse 3
Once a singer from the bad choices
On a singer without a pretense
When you give your mind to your voices
You accept the terms of your sentence
Bridge
And for you the Pulitzer prize
For time served, you're walking
Now in you the Americas
You broke through, it's nothing
Oh darling share the shade
Oh darling share the shade
Interlude
verse 4
You began to climb a new tower
Thinking you could learn a new language
That you would return a few favors
Since you left everybody hanging
Oh darling share your shade
Oh darling share your shade
Oh darling share your shade
Oh darling share your shade