I Will Return Songtext / Lyric

and the city stood
in a glowing splendor
'til her ashes were laid in an urn
beneath a fast food counter
i will return

the descendants were born
and they danced their dances
then the sound of their stmbling was great
tilting the world off it's axis
i will return

and the women gazed in their mirrors
suitors brought them vials of perfume
(quiet leves of desperation)
then golden-haired locusts with the faces of angels
sealed each of them up in a metal cocoon
and the life ran out
just when it all seemed better
here is a display in a granite museum
a shame on view forever
i will return

and the birdcage was eventually opened
a great flock of nuns flew away
(meeting no one's expectations)
and the saints who had slept on the head of a pin
came down from the sky at the end of all days

repeat first verse
i will return
(i will be coming like a thief in the night)

i will return
(i will be coming like a thief in the night), etc.