Mission Bells Lyrics

i've been in the narrow slashes

velvet red and real as rashes

california's got me wanting more

four years got me from this caption

generation came to kill

i know you and i know you will

who'll be sleeping on the mission bells?



leave me or let me go

oceans on two sides

optimism parallel, breaking in rich tides

how they must soothe you, now day and night



hypocrisy has smashed that atavistic take

on my commitment, one mistake

how's the new kid, all the new truths and the vileness, god forbid

i lie here waiting while the mission bells are ringing, ringing

out over the city and the sunshine and the doubt