Lyrics

Nighttime falls again
And it's time to pretend
We can find some shelter from the storm
But it gets hard to find
Illusions for the blind
To help to keep the wolf back from the door

Long ago the cavemen
Drew figures on the wall
And prayed to god so not to feel alone
But this world is moving on its own

Shadows fall to earth
Each one has a name
Moving just like dreamers 'cross the floor
Believers want to believe
Death is just a sleep
And we will soon awake for ever more

The voodoo men will shake their sticks
And rattle all their bones
The priest will try to roll away the stone
But this world is moving on its own

Moving for the demons
Moving for the Pope
Moving for the golden-hearted whore
Moving for the children
Who keep alive the hope
Moving for the man who has no more

Like a hunted crocodile
No man can survive
The penalties that love can never show
This world is moving on its own

Moving for the refugee
Moving for the saint
Moving for the prisoner of war
Moving for the healer
Moving for the lame
Moving for the man who crawls the floor

The fakir walks on nails
The beggar rides the rails
And gravity has never lost a war
The sun's alive and well
But when the power fails
Throw the virgin from the 13th floor

Contemplating suicide is some kind of revenge
For those who have been cast down from the throne
This world is moving on its own

And I've got my gris-gris
And I've got my tambourine
The voodoo dolls are lined up on my shelf
And I've got my mojo
And I've got my walking stick
'Cause I'm out there on the wire by myself

And I've got the face of Buddha
Painted on the eastern wall
And crosses hanging over every door
And I've got the sign of Lucifer
Up on the western wall
And the evil eye is painted on my door

And if this world is nothing
But the third stone from the sun
Beating like a senseless drum alone
Then I am living for the day
When it will beat no more
This world is moving on its own

This world is spinning faster than it ever spun before
Spinning up and down the galaxy alone
Spinning 'round for all the times when it will spin no more
I believe this world is spinning out there on its own
This world is moving on its own