the hounds are running in the alley-way below   underlining all her sins       across the alley   there is a rented room   there is a girl   I watch I watch her       yellow cotton curtains   the tiles are black and white   why are you home early?   is this another one of those nights?       straighten up the lilacs   straighten up your hair   over to the mirror   what do you see there?       you know why he is living   on a separate street away from you   usually you can forget   but tonight the hounds they get to you       the hounds are running in the alley-way below....   underlining all her sins       magnets in the mirror   usually you croon   but tonight you are no beauty   in your rented room       he knows why he is living   on a separate street away from you   usually he can forget   but tonight the hounds they get to him       the mirror shows a man in a chair   she sees him sway   he's falling to the floor   his lines they crack away   who is this man?   you know him you know him you know him       his being is your being   his scent is on your skin   his mind is on your mind   his breathing is your breathing       so she goes to her own chair   I see her sway   she's falling to the floor   her lines they crack away   she shatters on the tiles   like the mirror that she shatters   like the mirror that she shadows       the street it's night it's dark   I cannot see too well   but a fog descended on her room   that much I can tell       and every drop of water   drew salts across her soul, Lord   and every bead of water   made the beaded bodies roll       a cat stopped by to listen   'til her breathing ceased to toil   and on a separate street   well, that man he ceased to moil       yellow dawn is yellowing   now I can see the girl   now I can see her face   on the tiles I see her curled       breeze - it blows the curtains   across the wayward tiles   across the sleeping ones   on separate streets - I have to smile       they still will not understand   why they awaken so new   but their sleep was close to...holy   my darlings   we're watching over you       across the alley   there is a rented room   there is a girl   I watch I watch her   I watch I watch her   We watch We watch her