The first time he saw her was through a telescope A misfit cactus filled with bottled hope He answered like a sick man getting out of bed Suspicion and thirst, curiosity and dread The blindness in control Freeze the fatal bullet As we're falling through a hole in time One night he came home and found the house burning Through the frozen smoke he saw the earth turning A curtain of silence fell on deaf ears A dream from the past was echoing through the years The blindness in control Freeze the fatal bullet As we're falling through a hole in time