The fires continued through the night
The kid with a bat face appeared at the
Window then disappeared into the headlights
♪
I was halfway to the pacific coast
I had left you in your longing and your yearning like a ghost
♪
There's little room for wonder now, and little room for wildness too
♪
We crawl into our wounds
I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
♪
I'm gonna buy me a house up in the hills
With a tear-shaped pool and a gun that kills
Cause they say there is a cougar that roams these parts
With a terrible engine of wrath for a heart
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That she is white and rare and full of all kinds of harm
And stalks the perimeter all day long
♪
But at night lays trembling in my arms
♪
And I'm just waiting now, for my time to come
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And I'm just waiting now, for my time to come
♪
And I'm just waiting now, for my place in the sun
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And I'm just waiting now, for peace to come
♪
And I'm just waiting now, for my time to come
♪
And I'm just waiting now, for my time to come
♪
And we hide in our wounds and I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
♪
And I know my time will come one day soon
I'm waiting for peace to come
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And I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
Oh babe we're on the run, we're on the run, we're on the run
Halfway down the Pacific coast
I left you sleeping like a ghost in your wounds
♪
Darling your dreams are your greatest part
I carry them with me in my heart

Darling your dreams are your greatest part
I carry them with me in my heart
♪
Somewhere, don't know
♪
Now I'm standing on the shore
All the animals roam the beaches
Sea creatures rise out of the sea
And I'm standing on the shore
Everyone begins to run
The kid drops his bucket and spade and climbs into the sun
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Kisa had a baby, but the baby died
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Goes to the villages, says my baby's sick
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Villagers shake their heads and say to her
Better bury your baby in the forest quick
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It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
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Kisa went to the mountain and ask the Buddha
My baby's sick, Buddha said don't cry
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Go to each house and collect a mustard seed
But only from a house where no one's died
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Kisa went to each house in the village
My baby's getting sicker, poor Kisa cried
♪
But Kisa never collected one mustard seed
Because every house, someone had died
♪
Kisa sat down in the old village square
She hugged her baby and cried and cried
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She said everybody is always losing somebody
Then walked into the forest and buried her child
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Everybody's losing someone
♪
Everybody's losing someone
♪
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
And I'm just waiting now, for my time to come
♪
And I'm just waiting now, for peace to come, for peace to come