Here in the outlands, eve of '89 There's a wildcat prowling in the cool blue night A breeze is stirring like a distant shore Shadows falling on a moonlit door Guardian angels get up on your feet Feels like paradise just went to sleep Folk will tell you it's on nights like these A man could walk into eternity Only a pale moon hiding in a silver shroud Who in the world could stop this now? Riders approaching in the sand They're riding into no man's land No man's land Now all you sleepers back in videoland This time around maybe you'll understand Why you're waking in a cold sweat at night Why you feel you're falling, why you feel the fright This world of wonder is a world at war Where the silence thunders and the whispers roar Like white noise on your TV screens White light at the end of dreams Dawn is a cold steel blade on the horizon line Red with the morning sacrifice Over these traces in the sand Left like a scar on no man's land No man's land