Lost on Purpose Songtext
von Mark Heard

A twilight star burns cold blue
It burns cold blue in my eyes
A thousand light years from the hot blue
Of a thousand other dying skies
Let′s keep on walking past the brick walls
Spray painted with skulls of gloom
Matching moving moon-lit silhouettes
Past the playground with the padlock and chain on the gate

Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could try to figure it out
But we don't trust us
Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could turn around and go home
But the truth might hurt us


Skyscraper looks like an X-ray
Streetlights look infrared
Bus-fueled maphrodisiac slaps the back of my head
The night is in your turn-signal eyes
Lipstick on your coffee cup
Penny a tip for the waitress
The natives are restless
We gotta get out of this dump

Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could try to figure it out
But we don′t trust us
Yeah, lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could turn around and go home
But the truth might hurt us


You can smell the electric sky
Surplus souls budging in droves
Trance-dancing to the murmur of the city
The heartbeat of hell and the grindstone of chrome
Walking in silence in the temples of dog gods
I come with eyes that can't see
Ears that don't hear and the nerves that never wince
With the pain we′re feeling
Ray dawn filters through steel-stalagmites
Eight minutes from the dying sun
Safe from the fury, safe from the fire
Of the great unlearned
We sleepless dreamers
Straddle yellow-checkered chariots
You and me, we′re the prisoners of
The panorama of revolving door

Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could try to figure it out
But we don't trust us
Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could turn around and go home
But the truth might hurt us
Lost on purpose
Yeah, lost on purpose
We could try to figure it out
But we don′t trust us
Lost on purpose
Oh, lost on purpose
We could turn around and go home
But the truth might hurt us, yeah