Heavy Water

I walked out in the city night,

A burning in my eyes,

Like it was broad daylight.

And it was hot,

Down there in the crowd.

The stars went out

Behind a thunder cloud.

Chatter in the air,

Like a telegraph line.

Big drops hissing on the neon sign.

Thumping in my heart,

And it's hurting me to see.

Smokestack blowing, now they're pouring

Heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water on me, heavy water.

She was a southern girl.

We stared man to man.

I move like a stranger

In this strange land.

She was a round hole,

I was a square peg.

I watched the little black specks

Running down her leg.

Didn't seem to mind

That dirty rain coming down

Shirt hanging open.

She was wet and brown.

Thumping in my heart,

And it's hurting me to see.

Smokestack blowing,

Now they're pouring

Heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water,

Pouring heavy water, heavy water.

What goes up has to fall back down.

It's no night to be out

Dancing in a party town

When it runs hot and it runs so wide

Running in the street

Like a thin black tide.

Chatter in the air,

Like a telegraph line.

Big drops hissing on the neon sign.

Thumping in my heart,

And it's hurting me to see.

Smokestack blowing,

Now they're pouring

Heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water on me, oh,

Pouring heavy water on me,

Pouring heavy water on me, oh,

Pouring heavy water on me,

Oh, pouring heavy water on me.