Lyrics

The scent of dusk and dry mesquite
Curls about the electric lamps
Hovering like steel buttressed angels
Singing songs of time and sweat
As the candleman walks quickly past his shadow

His life is like a popular rock song
But he?s hanging around by the hook
Wond?ring at the emptiness he finds there
Every day is just the same
He?s melting away, til there?s nothing left but flame

Chorus:
How was your day, young candleman?
Will you shine your light now that night is close at hand?

The house settles softly in the velvet night
And wrapped in nightsheets and bedclothes
Eyes and ears and mouth and thinning hair
Measuring life with coffeespoons
The candleman burns, but the wick is not consumed

Chorus

I am so much more than this?
In my dreams I?m so much more?

So we walk along our weary way
Trapped inside our woolen swatch
And laying down to sleep, we don?t rest easy
Yeah, we?re wolves that knit our own sheep?s cloth
We settle for less, and the itching just won?t stop

Chorus

And the candleman drifts off to dream?