there's a path along the water under a sky bright with stars I saw it in a book of pictures lying open on a table in a room with people waiting
in the surf in the shallows the underwater creatures are calling to each other I'm in an elevator checking my reflection before I step through the doors
it's looking more and more like a sucker's bet I'll ever know I'll never know who the joke's on I'll never know
I have a hammer it used to be my father's it's rusted and small what I endow with meaning what I value to anyone but me may not mean anything at all
there's a place nobody knows it's the dirtiest secret in town I can't tell you the name I would never dare speak it but swear on your heart and I'll write it down
it's looking more and more like a sucker's bet I'll ever know I'll never know who the joke's on I'll never know
the stairs are roped off the stairs are blocked what's going on upstairs? What's going on at the top? it's like they said it would be and unlike that too their insight was limited to what they'd been through
I walk along the lakebed the water turned to steam I want to feel something or stop feeling something I lay my head on the pillow and dream
it's looking more and more like a sucker's bet I'll ever know I'll never know who the joke's on I'll never know