Snow on Dead Neighborhoods

Pluck all the wires from your skin
And toss 'em to the wind
Open your chest and let me in
I’ll help you mend
While you carve our names
In the ice on the sidewalk
And I do the same
On the face of a cinder block
Thousands of houses hug this road
But no one’s home
All the picket fences look like bones
'Cause nothin' grows
Snow covers everything in sight
A ghostly white
Under that blanket there’s no life
Just blinkin' lights
And we peer through the glass
Of those empty households
The TVs are all still on
They’re flashing images across the walls