Neko Case - Things That Scare Me

Flourescent nights engage
Black birds frying on a wire
Same birds that followed me
To school when I was young
Were they trying
To tell me something?
Were they telling me to run?

The hammer clicks in place
The world is gonna pay
Right down in the face of god & his saints
Claim your soul is not for sale
I'm a dying breed who still believes
Haunted by American dreams