Saline Grace - Border Town Shades lyrics

Once more the train stopped In the town of my irksome birth And my contorted reflection Was breaking away from The silent spectacle behind The old window's cloudiness Unspeakably blind eyes Welcomed me home With glances dedicated To suspicious strangers Who threatened the Standstill While I was crossing a ghost town I reached the river on the edge The stream was flowing cleaner But dirtier in knowledge Realizing the final decline I remembered Those companions Who meant a lot to me But who fed the unholy maw Of jealous estrangement The beginning rain became a flood And a lunatic reverend screamed out of The protestant's house about wiping out The evil through the hands of his Lord I remembered the devil of my childhood Who still was fairly alive Revealing the old parson's cursed lies The murder of mine had failed twice though In defiance of the devil's willing hands Those waters of the opened sky above I reached my early childhood's empty house Which made me think of the woman Who had given birth to me Weakness had led to the betrayal of her son And had been the devil's strength But through grey windows I saw the light of my cloudy days In the good eyes of that soul Who had been stronger Than her daughter The subsiding rain washed away The scum in the streets But I saw a gross town dweller Smugly swaggering along these streets I recognized the one he never wanted to be Walking on his circular trails Once more the train Would stop in the town Of my irksome birth Taking me away from The river's knowledge