Nits - The infinite shoeblack

This is the place where they built the machine They wipe out the drawings and lock up the dream This is the town where they wait for the wars They lock up the houses and burn all the cars Here on this map we are close to the place The end of our journey 4 hours and days This is the place where we stop with the car My sister whispers "I know where we are" This is the house. We've been here before The laboratory. The long corridor There is a key under a stone Look through the windows Nobody's home Turn the key In a bell-glass on a table The shoes are covered with dust They whisper with their strings "Shine us for mirror we must" Till we all fall through This is the place where they built the machine They wipe out the drawings and lock up the dream This is the house. We've been here before The laboratory. The long corridor. Me and my sister drive home with the blues We lifted the bell-glass and polished the shoes Till they're back the hopethe snake the smoke the hope the drive the rope the lake