Archie Noble - Closing Time Lyrics

I see the streets are paved with a hundred broken shells
And all too many people locked up inside themselves
I see so many strangers pushing for some room
They get so scattered and get swept up by their brooms

He gestures like a jester with his head full of sweat
I always see him moving like a marionet
Dancing on the floorboards until it's closing time
He's so strung up it's unclear if he can unwind

He writes like a spider with no second thoughts
With the hands of a lizard and the legs of a corps
Every time he speaks he talks so wordlessly
His eyeball makes my skin crawl when it rolls on me

He's made out of elastic a fantastic misery
You'd have to ask what caused his plastic tragedy
You can see by the way he walks and his one black tooth
He's so stretched out it's a wonder he's not snapped in two

The queen of hearts was trying hard to cover up her tracks
While the king was passing over with his hands made out of wax
He asked her for directions and a diagram to show
She clutched at her crutch and told him where he could go

The jack was busy running with a slightly hounded look
As he woke up to a parking ticket hanging from a hook
I've seen him by the station waiting from time to time
He keeps one eye open so it won't pass him by

Now it always keeps me thinking how it all seems so absurd
Everybody knows it but no one says a word
Everybody's bustling to find a place to sit
If this is all there is then I guess, I quit