Death in the Autumn Air Songtext
von Michael McDermott

Friday night is calling, you′re crawlin' up the wall and
You don′t know what you're gonna do
Empty kisses and your lost wishes, come back to
Haunt you
Like a dream what won't come true
A face in the dark, ignites a spark
Then disappears like it wasn′t even there
The swordsman fades and the reaper parades
By the death in the autumn air
The telephone is ringin′ and the heat pipes practice
Singing'
As they prepare to start for their part
Under the awning a young man is yawning
Waitin′ for the fearlessness of a heart
And the transient stumbles and the el train rumbles
Near the rooftops of angelic fear
Fallen angel stranded, her wings have been branded
By the death in the autumn air
Empty looks and lost poetry books
Scream out like ghosts more than most folks can hear


Disappearing, snarling and sneering
By the death in the autumn air
He reads an old letter, just can't forget her
As he paces the fl oor and stares at the phone
It′s hard for him to swallow, a love like that left him
Hollow
'Cause she′s with someone and he's all alone
And he prays that someday that she'll come back his
Way
And rescue him from his world of despair
A fi re barely smokin′, promises is all that she′s broken
By the death in the autumn air
Now I been readin' the circus is a comin′
And I hear generators runnin'
And I see circus trucks lined up in rows
Clowns in their gowns dancing′ on the fairgrounds
But when it opened up tonight nobody showed
And in each and every trailer
There was a feeling of such failure
Though the big top looked dauntless in the air
Another lost art had to play its part
By the death in the autumn air