The Wish

Well, I put another quarter in the wishing well

I prayed to the dark, and down it fell

Down in the watery deep

Are promises that no one can keep

Well, I've lost so many diamonds

That my crowns almost bare

And the patches on my heart

Are sewn on with care

And every time that I hit the floor

I keep coming back for more

So buy me a ticket on this one way train

'Cause the only way to love is again and again

And I'm riding the rails through this hurricane

Let it rain, oh let it rain

Take a whisper from my lips

So breath from my chest

Steal a beat from my heart

Put my soul to the test

I lay my guns in the ground

And my lies to the west

Let it rest, oh let it rest

Oh, I once stole sunshine from a desert dream

I once went fishing in a dried up stream

I held mountains in my hand

I wasn't careful and they turned to sand

I once smelt a sweet magnolia flower

Who smelled as soft as the midnight hour

She stole diamonds from my dreams

And wore them like a Zingara queen

And may our scars be as pretty as a pink ole' Texas sky

And soft and tender like the whisper of a jackalope's sigh

And when we light new candles

And our old ghosts haunt us on

May the flames burn them away with the dawn

Oh, I met Aphrodite on a summer's day

Through weeds and the brambles

She showed me the way

Left a glass crystal in my soul

That echoed like a singing bowl

Well, I rode to edge of a canyon deep

Where the wind was so strong

It knocked it me off of my feet

Like a banshee out in the storm

Well, I knew again I'd been reborn

So buy me a ticket on this one way train

'Cause the only way to love is again and again

And I'm riding the rails through this hurricane

Let it rain, oh let it rain