A Dark Eye

In the parking lot where I waited alone 
  A white bird sat sleeping on a broken payphone 
  And there came a black beetle dragging off a green fly 
  Underneath a parked car and then out of sight 

  And I felt a dark eye turn its gaze upon me 
  As if the earth, the earth could see 
  A dark eye, a dark eye 
  A dark eye fell on me 

  In the parking lot where a prairie once grew 
  And through the tall grass the buffalo flew 
  I heard something crying way down below 
  Where the sewer lines snake around Indian bones 

  In that parking lot, cars bake in the sun 
  And somewhere down the road, the pop of a gun 
  I watched a red ant crawl up my shin 
  And I felt so sad until it bit my skin 

  A dark eye, a dark eye 
  A dark eye fell on me