The Story Again

In a tower of glass on a Manhattan street A former king faced a bitter defeat Twelve silent faces in a solemn row Planted a seed and watched a verdict grow Thirty-four times the hammer came down On a famous man in a famous town A felony story, the first of its kind Leaving the future and past intertwined

Oh, the wheel keeps on turnin', the headlines they burn Another new chapter, an old lesson to learn From the halls of the powerful to the dust of the plain The sun comes up, and it tells the same story again The Texas sun burns a hole in the sky While the winds in the heartland just scream and pass by Twisting the tin roofs and bending the grain Folks pray for mercy, and then they pray for the rain

From Phoenix to Florida, the mercury climbs A story of weather in desperate times The earth gives a fever, the rivers they swell Another new page from a familiar hell Oh, the wheel keeps on turnin', the headlines they burn Another new chapter, an old lesson to learn From the halls of the powerful to the dust of the plain The sun comes up, and it tells the same story again

And the whispers of ghosts in a brand new machine Are buyin' and sellin' a digital dream A chip-maker's fortune that climbs to the moon On the promise of futures arriving too soon While the children on campus, with signs in their hands Cry out for peace in far, broken lands With new words for anger and old, ancient pleas Carried like pollen all over the breeze

Oh, the wheel keeps on turnin', the headlines they burn Another new chapter, an old lesson to learn From the halls of the powerful to the dust of the plain The sun comes up, and it tells the same story again