Blue Hour

Sally turned 3 in a park in DC
Laughing and swinging
Her feet in the breeze

'Hello' said the man, with a gun in his hand
'I did it for you, I hope you understand'
Understand

Sally turned 9 and saw blood in the sky
Angel food clouds are red cherry now
She remembers the man whispering something sad
Like 'it'd all be just fine for a while', it's beyond his
Command

'Cause he knew the world before the blue hour
Marked by lovers in backseats
His high beams danced in the stars

'Cause he knows there's time, in the blue hour
There's a million hues, in the blue

Now 21, Sally's summer begun
Speeding down freeways her feet in the hard breeze
She closes her eyes, she was promised more time
Using her thumb, yeah, she blocks out the sun
For a while

Cause in the blue hour, the world it resigned
To a sky full of astronauts not coming back for us
Are we just Mars?

But she knows there's time, in the blue hour
There's a million hues, in the blue

Sally is grown and has kids of her own
Sometimes I ask her when did she know
So much smoke from the guns
Can't tell the barrel it's from
Gotta walk though the haze
To find some better days
While they come

'Cause I found the world in the blue hour
Marked by lovers in backstreets
On cliff tops my high beams
Danced in the stars

'Cause I know there's time in the blue hour
There's a million hues in the blue
Yeah, I know there's time, for you, in the blue hour
I only wanted you, in the blue

Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm