"Come Down Healing" lyrics

There's howling in the factory yard
There's pounding in my head
I'm swollen up with unshed tears
Bloated like the dead
Somebody stands in a window
Watches the river roll
Trains rumble by in the foreground
With the weight of approaching dawn
Blood and ashes
Time is burning
And the high vault of heaven
Looks far away and cold

Come down healing
Come down healing

Pale moon in cold blue sky
Frost in grass like winter stars
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
The air around smokes with myth
The light is thickening
You can feel it in the gut like the warmth of absinthe
Feel it in the veins like the rush of love
Like the winds that through the wounds of chaos
Blow blessings from the mad

Come down healing
Come down healing

On those monkeys huddled in waves of rain
On the politician monkey gobbling what the cow left
On the pundit monkey paid to interpret his belches
On the ones who in the mirror see only what they hate
Who in other tribes see only what they hate about themselves
On the shadows in doorways who [?] once had been human
On the ones who have to live with the memory of torture
On those who must die when the plague angel flies
On the warlocks and gene-splicers
Who would grope each other's emptiness
On the hills of the mother world emptied of breath
On the seven cooling towers of the cancer apocalypse
On the seven billion dreaming souls

Come down healing
Come down healing
Come down healing
Come down healing