Paper crane in a dirty train   Trying to dry her wings   The atom split between her lips   In the final stage   Chemicals dissolve and the family disappears   She sees her life slip between the cracks in the atomic age   Like a shot in the vein   Like a shot in the vein      Can a pilot see the distant arc of history   A thousand suns all burst at once in a blinding rage   We need a drug   We need something to take the dreams away   The dream of peace has gone to sleep sleep   In the passing lane   Like a shot in the vein   Like s shot in the vein      There's a black dog hanging by a string   In the flutter of a thousand paper wings   You put your faith in the chemicals   But you fear the crash and you overreact   And you hear the bomb going off   Then you see the flash, it's out of sync   When you take bitter pills   No sugarcoat can mask the taste   A thousand paper cranes   Left out in the rain   A thousand paper cranes