Dust

If only dust could talk

What would we hear it say

Before it's brushed aside

Just as it's swept away

It's just the evidence

It's of no consequence

It's only flesh and bone

Why don't you leave it alone

If only dust could talk

Caught in a falling beam

If only dust could cry

If only dust could scream

For it's the single witness that might testify

Could I spit out the truth

Or would you rather just swallow a lie

But dust is always caught behind a coat of pain

Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints

And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape

Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape

Before they start to wander

Or they start to shrink

You rub your eye a little and appear to blink

And then she caught you staring

She knows what you're thinking

What got into you is not a ghost as such

It was just dust

Here comes the juggernaut

Here come The Poisoners

They choke the life and land

And rob the joy from us

Why do they taste of sugar

Oh when they're made of money

Here come the Lamb of God

And the butcher's boy Sonny

Why did they dam the land

Why did they flood the plain

Did they erase the stain

And wipe away the name

You kept your mouth well shut

Appeared to turn your coat

Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat

Well I believe each us

Became a small dust

Well I believe each us

Became a small dust