In the Craters on the Moon - The Mountain Goats

If the strain proves too much

Give up right away

If the light hurts your eyes

Stay in your room all day

When the room fills with smoke

Lie down on the floor

In the declining years

Of the long war

When the blood’s in the water

And the shark’s going to come

And we swim in the dark

Until our bodies are numb

Blind desert rats in the moonlight

Too far from shore

In the declining years

Of the long war

Empty room with a light bulb

When the phone starts to ring

Everybody gets nervous

Nobody says anything

The next day someone’s initials

Show up on the door

I think I’m going to crack

Can’t live like this anymore

Ugly things in the darkness

Worse things in store

In the declining years

Of the long war