Zigzagging Toward the Light

[Verse 1]
I'm blessed with a heart that doesn't stop
My mind's a weathervane, it spins around just like a top
Knows what the winds of fortune bring
In the season of the witch
Home is a perjury, a parlor trick, an urban myth

[Chorus]
Oh, how the circumstances change
This world of smoke and steel
And compromise and meter-maids
I'm going to leave here 'fore too long
Zigzagging toward the light
I'm off to sing my bounder song

[Verse 2]
True love, it hides like city stars
Nothing to gaze upon or contemplate how near or far
If it comes, it comes quite unannounced, a momentary glance
Lit up by sun or moon or bonfire or ambulance

[Chorus]
Then how the circumstances change
Feels unmistakable, with no idea from where it came
But you will know it when it's gone
Zigzagging through the night
Half-dead, you sing your bounder song

Half-dead, you sing the bounder song
Half-dead, you sing, half-dead you sing

[Bridge]
Sing for the bounder
Whose word is never kept
A bindle of flowers to state his mind
And bloom when he forgets

[Verse 3]
It's true that shadows tell the time
On sunny afternoons, on crowded sidewalks, passersby
I'm in a queue that stretches out far as the eye can see
It forms a figure eight and goes on for eternity

[Chorus]
Oh, how the circumstances change
I fly by interstate across a purple mountain range
I'll find a place to come undone
Zigzagging toward you now
I sing out loud our bounder's song

[Outro]
(Oh-oh, oh-oh
Bounder's song
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Bounder's song
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Bounder's song
Oh-oh, oh-oh)