Protected dreams of jealousy leave nothing worth forsaking Judge the matter how you will that prize is not worth taking Dance a hole right through the floorboard Dance a hole right through your shoe When the midnight show is over what else have you got to do? Roll away the half-blind vision dressed in stars by winter light Close the door to crippled highways song by song that filled the night Bend it into unclear spaces Save the eye but lose the sight Does it matter when it's over if the truth were even right? You can play with power and money You can play with towers above Draw the line there, if you're able Don't you ever play with love Don't play with love Don't you ever play with love A hundred pipers on the highway Blink your eye, they're gone again Crimson stars on blue-white banners westwood ho! through ten years' rain Outraged senses cry: Be numb you just cause us further pain Still the neon river beckons Star-crossed lovers bloom again Dance a hole right through the floorboard Dance a hole right through your shoe In the hour 'tween blood and roses what else have you got to do? Could you break the gray, cold vision come to terms with what you can? Proceed from there, if you're able with just the ground on which you stand? The past is not the only highway Why go roll it out again? The future's in the unborn river of this morning's cloudless rain In my lady's winter palace dreamward as the summer lies I mistook a flight of swallows for the questions in your eyes Broken words defending highways Shining bright like April rain Loving lies and wrong decisions Yes, I guess it comes again Yes, I guess it comes again Dance a hole right through the floorboard Dance a hole right through your shoe In the hour 'tween blood and roses what else have you got to do?