The River In Reverse

(Costello)
 How long does a promise last?
 How long can a lie be told?
 What would I take in exchange for my soul?
 Would I notice when it was sold?
 Wake me up
 Wake me up
 Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
 There must be something better than this
 'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse
 What do we have to do to send
 The river in reverse
 Every man a crawling kingsnake
 Every girl a half a heartbreak
 Every woman sold into shame
 To any son without a name
 Are your arms too weak to lift?
 Another shovel on the graveyard shift
 Here comes the flood if you catch my drift
 Where the things that they promised are not a gift
 If man falls through the mirror of a lake
 They fish him out quick and they call him a fake
 Give him all the temptations he can take
 Tie him up high 'til his bones break
 Wake me up
 Wake me up
 Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
 There must be something better than this
 'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse
 What do we have to do to send
 The river in reverse
 I thought I heard somebody laugh
 Look out your window
 They're chasing shadows in the dark
 They're counting widows
 I felt a sliver of glass
 Saw a cross in splinters
 I felt the truce of spring
 Dig me out of the trench of winter
 So count your blessings when they ask permission
 To govern with money and superstition
 They tell you it's all for your own protection
 'Til you fear your own reflection
 But the times are passing from illumination
 Like bodies falling from a constellation
 An uncivil war divides the nation
 So erase the tape on that final ape running down creation
 Running down creation
 Wake me up
 Wake me up
 Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
 There must be something better than this
 Wake me up
 Wake me up with a slap or a kiss
 There must be something better than this