It's a long day before you sleep
Scattered and strange like the hours you keep
This is no time to look before you leave
I caroline,
let the spotlight beseech you The darkness can't reach you,
the power lines
The crackle above you,
the city that loves you has come alive
And the streets and the bars and the pavement call your name
By the birds and the planes and the streetlights call your name
Living over the mini-mart Living soldier with a purple heart
Little old town
of a stop before you start
I caroline,
when the peasants defeat you The lights out of reach you,
devour lives
And the power that protects you when
all else rejects you a thousand times
When the face in the bathroom mirror calls your name
And the voice from the distance station calls your name
Calls your name
Calls your name
Calls your name
Calls your name
Cherish before it's lost Scrape your pretty practice,
start a graft
And the winds she'll frost
Take the long way home with fingers crossed
Ah, come on, what's it cost now, caroline?
Time is a ghost,
it's paler than most,
stop a paradigm
There's a shift in the need to a perilous peak that you gotta climb
To rush through the elevation calls your name
And you dream like a revelation calls your name
Till the cry of an ambient nation calls your name