blood and smoke and noise

Here we go again
on this grave robber tour
numberless nights I have ridden
with your howling madness
This train is my life
and it roars with a violence,
threatens to jump the tracks
The night reveals it
all blood and smoke and noise
Desperate are we
who straddle it
we have no other home
Here it is again
that same old song
faster this time
so fast,
you can't keep up
The noise, the violence,
the rhetoric you once shunned
has become a partner
You defend it
because you have to
you have nowhere else to go
Up there in the crowd, all of you
I hope you will always be begging
for an explanation
I hope you never know
what all of these words mean
I'm just another filthy fool of a man
wandering the outskirts of your town.