These arterial roadways carry apathy indifferently From a heart made to bring the steel To its unfeeling extremities In between the rise and fall of an empire The light from the campfire fading away History writes itself on the faces Of people and places Traces of gray How the stock market sleeps tonight This town dreams in black and white Oh no In a house filled with vampires Can a wound go unrecognized See the ghost of a distant time As the freightliner rumbles by In between the rise and fall of an empire The light from the campfire fading away History writes itself on the faces Of people and places Traces of gray In between the rise and fall of an empire The light from the campfire fading away History writes itself on the faces Of people and places Traces of gray