Control

[Verse 1]
                      
I almost saw a train wreck
                   
Then I had to look away
                       
Never had I wondered before
                                  
What happened when metal bent and tore
                      
I ran across manhole covers
                         
Toward the center of my Earth
           .           
Valleys and other landmarks
                                
Visions of big machines transformed

   

[Verse 2]
                          
Walking around in St. Matthews
                                       
The winds were light and the roads were wet
                              
Those green sloping mountains over
                     
Leading up to gravel beds
                               
My brother Paul was walking aimless
                          
My father Pete had turned away
                                      
Paul stumbled toward a roaring train track
                               
He was only four years old that day

   

[Chorus]
              
Who s in control?
              
Who s in control?

 

[Bridge]
                  
I barely saw it happen
                       
The ground€™s monumental shake
                                      
There must have been two feet between them
                                    
Before those two hands snatched him safe
                                
As we headed home to beat the sunset
                       
I heard him crying overhead
                                        
That night I dreamt we turned the lights out
                           
And wandered far away from this

   

[Chorus]
              
Who s in control?
               
Yeah, who s in control?


[Outro]
                       
Now I m sitting on a bridge
                   
Out in Portland, Oregon
                         
The old day begins to shudder
                           
And rolling on, becomes another