Out back in the tool shed ...Every day all through the summer ...All the neighbors kept comp...And long black veil ...Shooting for the stars ...The biggest thing since...And a bad moon on the rise ...And long black veil ...For cocaine nights and reckless days ...all white church in the valley ...iently we waited on the cold Alabama ground...And the preacher he started...The sun was slowly sink...Walk in the garden ...And the old rugged cross ...And long black veil

A shadow vacant in the sky....our power hidden in the night.... prayed on lonesome nights....The damage, inflicted,...The pain in us they lea...Through tails of the demons,

From the bridge into the river below. ...A starry veil and the oceans of infinity....Mingle with the blood inside my vei...Holding me close through nights of winter rain. ... to spell what only the wind can explain. ...e's neon melting in the rain ...got a sword to stem the rivers ...And cut the moon in half. ...Mingle with the blood inside my vei...Holding you close through nights of winter rain ... to spell what only the wind can explain ...Not a cloud in the the sky to confuse....Now the sky is cold and the sea is white ...e except reflecting the sun ...And scratching the mountain side

And he sat down on the curb to rest ...And he lost the thread and his mind...And the words just rolled off down in the gutter ...In exchange for the rent on a one room ...Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine ...Well he could cut through the years to the very night ...en straight none of the time ...ny days of fightin' the weather ...And too many nights of not being togeth...Well when they went through his personal affect...In among the stubs from the welfare checks ...The welfare people provided the priest ...A couple from the mission down the street ...n black, way off to the side ...Black veil covering her silver

ts are flowing with the salamanders showing...Of the "touch of evil" tin...These rodents know the craving for a slice...ese amphibians know the craving for a slice...All these nights have made me crazy ...Days of hiding in the sunshine ...Slipping through the thinking knot ...Pulling back the veil are monkeys ...ticky monkeys crawl the floor

All these nights have made me crazy;...Days of hiding in the sunshine feeling ni...s sinking, slipping through the thinking knot ...Pulling back the veil are monkeys, hidden...ticky monkeys crawl the floor

hirty thousand feet the 452 Group in clear ...Beholds the city laid out like ...Still the fires from last nights attack among the rubble glows ...Black puffs the anti-aircraft guns ...As the mighty eight approaches high up in the sky ...From the bellies of the flying fortresses i...e pouring down upon the earth ... explosives falling through the sky ...w engulfed in smoke the city is ablaze ...Again at night the roar of engines in the dark above ...The Merlin rumble now 5...The pathfinders unloads a colour full veil glow so bright ...And the rubble city down below burn throughout the night