Kevin Devine All Of Everything, Erased lyrics

This is the window where I watched the future start
My pupils dilated, the shock sped up in my arms
I shut my ambushed eyes, turned my face towards the heat

I felt the city choke, I heard the world at war
I prayed for providence, God said don't pray no more
You went and made your mess, now keep your blame off my feet

So I got off my knees I faced the devil's day
The sky was murder red, the streets were headstone gray
A flaming ferris wheel spun where the sun used to be

I watched its buckets dip and dance
I saw a couple making love lock hands
They were pushing for abandon and the answers it could bring
Ninety million miles from the graveyard growing over everything

I watched my lover chased through fields of sugarcane
She clutched her belly close, she whispered keep us safe
They ground her down to dust, no more miracles today


So I dreamed myself awake in a resort hotel
Above a golden coast inside my southern belle
We heard the sea reborn in each singing shell

And every coughing car and every coiled snake
And every shrieking star and every burning stake
Dissolved to atmosphere, all of everything erased

I spread into a distant hum, I droned along with everyone
And the earth grew green and nursed herself to what she used to be
All our senseless shouting calmed to quiet in her ancient memory

And oh what a joy to be free
And oh what a joy to be free
And oh what a joy to be free
And oh what a joy to finally be free