What do they say about the sky at night?
Sailors take warning or sailors' delight?
Through the city smog, the sun is ruby red
And I'm not sailor and fish wash up dead
Dark skies, you cannot see the stars
The only twinkle are the lights of distant cars
Dark skies, sailors beware
The only lights are towers in the air
What do they say about the ocean blue?
It's full of sharks in the deep dark and they're waiting for you
And on the dusty plain where wheat gave way to stones
Eagle feathers in the dirt among the bisons' bones
Dark skies, black as false pity
The only twinkle are the lights of distant cities
Dark skies, beware upon the ground
The only lights are planes coming down
What do they say about the morning sky?
If it's blue or if it's red, we're all gonna die
I saw the blazing sun through the purple haze
A skywriter wrote "These are the final days"
Dark skies, you cannot see the stars
The only twinkle are the lights of distant cars
Dark skies, sailors beware
The only lights are towers in the air
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