Rainbows In The Night - Dirk Hamilton

I sleep with the sun and I work by the moon

My woman's asleep in the very next room

and the sound of a generator three doors down

comes almost as natural as the night to us now

The boom of a lowrider rattles the walls

and gets me to wonder, how do we get through it all?

And I wonder if mankind carries a curse

and if history's just a listing of things getting worse?

And I envy the people of the olden days

the silence that they lived in

and the miles of space

Oh, oh, still my eyes
See Rainbows In The Night

The sweat of the honest makes the merry-go-round
The sly ride the stallions, the lowly bow down
While the wanna-be plays calliope the gotta-be totes a gun
and the shivering refugee waits for the sun
And my friend at the factory stands in a line
helplessly watching his livelihood die
And he dreams of the people of the olden days
the silence that they lived in
and the miles of space

Oh, oh, still my eyes
see rainbows in the night
Oh, oh, still my eyes
See Rainbows In The Night

Who is this arrogant cunning young thing
that spoils all he touches, then proclaims himself king?
Well it must be that mankind carries a curse
and if it ever gets better, first it'll have to get worse
And if we can't make it better then we all are doomed
and the earth will be left to heal from her wounds
And after we're gone the impression we'll leave
will be like the hole that a leaping fish leaves in the sea
And with no one to remember the olden days
there will be silence and miles of space

Oh, oh, still my eyes
see rainbows in the night
Oh, oh, still my eyes
see Rainbows In The Night

Disk