There's a cruel crumpling sound from over yonder by the steeplechase It's a sound of coming down like horses slamming on The brakes it's the sound of a crowd, of an equine crowd Hin the vacuum of its age It's a sound coming down of an entirely different race It's a sound coming down like il palio Sent splayed and sprawling into a cafe in an explosion of table legs and trays It's a sound coming down like a chuckwagon when it strays A little too far from the stampede days And slams into the butterfly chase That's the sound Coming down