Been walking the dirt floor, my eyes are open Lord
Where did you go, have we left you bored?
On down this unholy well we rolled
Stirring barrels in hell to be warm
It's further back down than to high ground
Only one thing is certain
That's everybody
Everybody's hurting
We come from the country where the rain follows plow
And the evenings are cold enough to pluck your feathers
We hear your engines roaring deep and loud
As we work the mules on this bludgeoned ground
We've hunted these hills dry
We've long outlasted the winter and our last wood pile
Only one thing is certain
That's everybody
Everybody's hurting
Through rolling acres of boneyards we drift
Our spirits' been broken been splintered to bits
Faith is believing what you ain't so
My sweetheart we've got to learn to live with these ghosts
They can't leave and we can't go
We'd sell this valley if we could go up north
Where the sun sets dripping buckets of gold
Through snow topped thunderheads and rows of wind
clouds
Coming down this mountain how sweet salvation sounds
With our hands out like lowly pilgrims
As the old men death salute the young ones in
Already know what we're just learning
That's everybody
It's a struggle, it's a shame
It's all give and no take
Whatever, it is now, it's right up to our waist
It's a pity, it's a shame to see it all slip away
I've seen you worried babe, but never this way
We hold our ground, we don't kneel
If we go down we go
Down on our own shield
It's a river of tears
And we're in over our ears
In the dark it rides off with our better years
It's a bottomless well
It's a little overkill
It's the end of a dragon's tail
That's whipping round our heels
But we don't bow, we make no deals
If we go down we go
Down on our own shield
In this corner ladies and gentlemen
Weighing in, all along my love for her is strong
We scaled pillars to here tonight
It's not the kind of trick you get to pull twice
It's an ambush girl
A cold-blooded low down dirty world
See them yellow lanters walk
A circle around our bit of earth
It's a turn for the worse
It's off with their heads if they don't learn
We do this over their dead bodies
Before it's over mine or yours
We don't beg for mercy dear
If we go down we go
Moonlit girls hiding in the dunes
Stars are falling like rockets in ruins
I'm in the meadows where the roses bloom
The orange blossoms shaking loose
Lovers talking like lovers do
Summer's twlights had them fooled
Yonder come
Yonder come
Yonder come the blues
Clap your hands, stomp your boots
Yonder come the blues
My feet are planted in the waist-high reeds
In the shadows in the shape of trees
Through the kingdom's smoky leaves
You'd be laughing too if you could see
On the outskirts long and lean
Not baring gifts on a jet black steed
Yonder come
Yonder come
Yonder come the blues
Ain't no rumor, it's simply true
Yonder come the blues
A dozen fingers and an easy touch
Throwing ashes in the pixie dust
Locked and loaded right off the bus
It's got us numbered, the two of us
Sing that gospel and get your thrills
Raise the roof off and strike the bell
You'd be dancing too if you could tell
It's waking up and coming out of it's shell
Down the boulevard sirens pass
Into the underworld deep and black
With brass and ladders, pick and axe
Down the stairwell through the blast
Single file out, don't be last
Not every one of us is coming back
Yonder come
Yonder come
Yonder come the blues
Move on back and let them through
In which direction are we going?
How many runaways are we stowing?
Over the black sea with your arm around me
In whose honor have we gone missing?
I am too hungry to imagine
A different ending to this famine
In building chaos of calenders and clocks
I missed a marked and I got us lost
It's standing eight count
Out on the dark and shoreless waters
Comrade do you think we'll go under?
On which horizon is my lover waking up?
You pass this bottle and then I think too much
Lean your body up against me
Make believe that you still want me
The swell of white caps and a silver streak of light
Here on the bowline we pay clearly for our size
It's standing eight count
Lessons will come but wisdom will wait
And whenever it does it's too late
What good are we now?
With our backs on the ground
Our faces both bloodied and bowed
When we ought to know better by now
The flat and troubled shapeless earth
It stretches futher then you've heard
No love like our love, none older, none as cursed
You hurt the ones you love and we wouldn't do
much worse
How many fingers am I showing?
How many tears are you withholding?
Beads of sweat pouring in our eyes
If it were blood we wouldn't know it
If you find me in a gloom or catch me in a dream
Here inside my lonely room there is no in between
If you find me in a gloom or catch me in a dream
Inside my lonely room there is no in between
Whispering pines, rising of the tide
If only one star shines that's just enough to get inside
I will wait until it all goes 'round
With you in sight the lost are found
Foghorn through the night, calling out to sea
Protect my only light for she once belonged to me
Let the waves rush in, let the seagulls cry
For if I live again these hopes will never die
I can feel you standing there
But I don't see you anywhere
Standing by the well
(Standing by the well)
Wishing for the rains
(Wishing for the rains)
Reaching to the clouds
(Reaching to the clouds)
For nothing else remains
Drifting in a daze when evening will be done
Try looking through a haze
At an empty house in the cold, cold sun
I will wait until it all goes 'round
Left turn off a county road
Weathervane is to the north
In the shade of sycamore
Is the house where you were born
In the cotton fields below
Tall and mighty, brick and stone
Don't feel like it did before
'Cause we don't live here anymore
We don't live here
We don't live here
We don't live here anymore
That ain't country in their voice
They ain't no local boys
Landlord's daughter is at the door
Saying we don't live here anymore
We're off the script, we're off the lease
Can't catch any decent sleep
Let it flood, let it pour
We don't live here anymore
We don't live here
We don't live here
We don't live here anymore
Been working hard to the bone
Face down, nose to the grindstone
If God is working, I'd wish he'd say so
Maybe he don't live here anymore
Glad I've got you here with me
Down in hell's half acre's infirmary
Hear that broom go across the floor
But we don't live here anymore
We don't live here
We don't live here
I'm up here somewhere so high in the climb
Too many people running loose in the mind
Send us a king or someone else that can bring
Some order where otherwise everything is
Eye for an eye, truth for a truth
Here I lie, my arms around you
You would be blind if you only knew
It was eye for an eye and truth for truth
Pack up your wagon girl and button your coat
Look up and see me coming out of the smoke
Footprints of angels leaving tracks in the snow
I'm the last man that sweetheart you oughta know
When it's eye for an eye and truth for a truth
Here I lie, my arms around you
You would be blind if you only knew
It was eye for an eye and truth for a truth
It's good to be hungry
The apple of somebody's eye
Ain't nothing so pretty in this terrible light
All hands on deck and all men to the tower
I'm a virtueless man in the midnight hour
Now it's junk on junk, this bed that we made
Where I sleep like a horse standing up on the clay
Got to be ready, there's so much hell to pay
And I'm guilty of loving you in the worse kind of way
Eye for an eye, truth for a truth
Here I lie, my arms around you
You would be blind if you only knew
Gentlemen, where have we been?
Can't find the hole where we got in
We ain't had no letters since spring
Gentlemen, where have we been?
Ain't going nowhere now
Let this bottle make its rounds
And let this liquor settle down
We ain't going nowhere now
Darker than ever in the mine
Shine a light, shine a light
Holler back now, make some noise
I do believe they've trapped us boys
Fill the dirt back on the grave
Ain't nothing good here being raised
Look at the filthy mess we've made
Fill the dirt back on the grave
We cut the fruit, we took the tree
We chiseled all the branches free
We took more than we'd ever need
We cut the fruit, we took the tree
Darker than ever in the mine
Shine a light, shine a light
Holler back now, make some noise
I do believe they've trapped us boys
Can't have no one not toe the line
'Round here, it's always 'round midnight
Can't have no brothers left behind
Can't have no one not toe the line
That ain't the cavalry we heard
It's the rain that's crashing on the earth
Tell our women and our children we ain't hurt
But, no, it ain't the cavalry we heard
Darker than ever in the mine
Shine a light, shine a light
Holler back now, make some noise
Got my window open wide
Got my window open wide
Got a good woman by my side
Got a good woman by my side
Now this kind of day
Has no night
Yeah
This kind of day
Has no night
Ain't got much on my mind
Ain't got much on my mind
'Cause I know
Something good this way comes
Now watching the streets
Filling up
Watching the streets filling up
In the shade of the summer sun
In the shade of the summer sun
Got sweet apple pie on the stove
Got sweet apple pie on the stove
The birds they're all flyin' low
The birds they're all flyin' low
'Cause they know
Something good this way comes
The trouble, doll
Is not moving mountains, but
Digging the ground that you're on
If it's true
That good fortune gives no chase
We got just what it takes
Collar up on my coat
Collar up on my coat
Trucks are pullin'
In for the show
Trucks are pullin'
In for the show
Grasshopper jump in the road
Grasshopper jump in the road
Kids they're all running home
The kids
They're all running home
'Cause they know
Something good this way comes
Yeah
Something good this way comes
The trouble, doll
Is not moving mountains, but
Digging the ground
That you're on
If it's true
That good fortune
Gives no chase
We got just what it takes
Got my window open wide
Got my window open wide
Got a good woman by my side
Got a good woman by my side
'Cause I know
Something good this way comes
Yeah
Something good this way comes
Yeah
Something good this way comes
You're gonna say I told you so
I never should have let you go
Ain't it funny that here we are
The two of us in two different bars
In separate cages dancing slow
We ain't got nobody to call our own
You can always go back home
You just might be there alone
I'm drunk and you're insane
I can't quit and you won't change
Ain't no halfhearted romeo
Why do you treat me so?
Like our love's a joke
Hurts too much to laugh
Can't you least smile
When you call me that
Days are harder than you would believe
I ain't having luck making ends meet
If time were money then look at me
I'm richer then a poor man should be
Price of admission is much too steep
For broke uneducated clowns like me
It may be true I was the first to leave
But now I'm begging you please
My heart's on my sleeve
And I'm tipping my hat
Can't you at least smile
When you call me that
Not much is certain but this is true
My arms are useless if they don't have you
They hang around me with nothing to do
I'm hoping you and yours are lonesome too
Neon's buzzing and here I am
Last one standing, last call again
While you're unfolding in a stranger's hands
I'll drink up and be somebody's man
Angels can walk I've seen it before
They turn handles, they open doors
They act like devils, now you've been warned
They'll vanish when love is war
I'm down on my knees
And you won't have me back
But you can at least smile
Nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Nothing, nothing
Got nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Nothing, nothing
Got nothing but the whole wide world to gain
I'm here on the blacktop, the sun in my eyes
Women and country on my mind
Both turned me out over the borderline
Now there's no more love loss and no more shame
No more digging holes or graves
Nothing to lose but rivets and chains
Got nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Nothing, nothing
Got nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Nothing, nothing
Got nothing but the whole wide world to gain
Was born in a stable and built like an ox
Down in the pastures I learned how to walk
Mama, she raised me to sing and just let them talk
Said no rich man's worth his weight in dust
They'll bury them down same as they do us
God wants us busy, never giving up
He wants nothing but the whole wide world for us
Nothing but the whole wide world for us
Nothing, nothing
Wants nothing but the whole wide world for us
Nothing, nothing
Wants nothing but the whole wide world for us
I ain't got no money, can't get no love
Never was too good at either of them
I'm here for adventure, whichever way it comes
But what good is an angel that won't catch up?
I'm free falling now, and I'm ready enough
I give my tears and I give my blood
I'd give nothing but the whole wide world for one
Nothing but the whole wide world for one
Nothing, nothing
Give nothing but the whole wide world for one
Nothing, nothing
Blackbird sitting on an open gate
Cattle out walking the plains
West winds blowing the waist-high wheat
Sideways in the rain
Bloodhounds spent, get no trail
There ain't no sign of man
Want to get ourselves on the straight and the narrow
Gonna need a better plan
Roll your sleeves, hold back the dam
Fill these bags with sand
Every young boy, woman, and every man
Has got to lend a hand
It ain't no wives tale, it ain't no fable
Payback is coming around
The hourglass is sitting there on the table
Filled on both sides now
The work is potluck, grab a hatchet
Wear any glove that fits
You can't take a punch then you might as well quit
It won't matter how hard you hit
Roll up your sleeves, shovel in hand
Rise up and learn how to stand
You're a toothless woman or a one-armed man
You too got to lend a hand
We're losing daylight, you've got to be swift
You ain't got brains than you can lift
Be an optimist and see the glass half full
You don't got to like what you've got in it
When our father gets home he's gonna turn on the lights
We're up to our thoats in knives
His eyes will flash and his teeth will grind
He'll say "You're on your own, look alive!"
Suppose I quit you, my wayward tribe
Whatever would you do?
Take me to Hades or take me to Memphis
Just don't take me for one of you
Roll your sleeves up, the fat lady sang
Grab your buckets and cans
Come over the border, your papers in order
You too got to lend a hand
Roll your sleeves up, hold back the dam
Fill these bags with sand
Every young boy, woman, every tired old man
I'd be the last one to know if you are always unhappy,
first one who would ever ask why?
It was me you abandoned, or have I imagine that you were ever mine.
It's a black and white photo of you that I own,
that proves you were ever alive.
Is that me that you're holding?
Or am I just hoping you held me at least one time?
There's a tap on the window and bird that come in the
evenings when I'm alone.
As the shadow that crosses up over the ceiling up above my bed below.
No two angels are alike, but I want to think that if
that were you, I'd know.
Love is much worse often blind in the arms of a ghost.
Oh was your eyes the same kind of blue as the sea or
more like the sky when it's dawn?
Did your hair grow blonde by the end of the summer
and you always wear it long.
Did you stay between cities in a wilderness where living
wasn't too much to bear?
Did you fall from a wire, who pathway of fire that
over would take you there?
There's a light that appears up over the buildings before the other ones.
Vanish this one's has been notice returning back to where it's from.
No two stars are alike, but I want to think that if
that were you, I'd know.
Love is much worse often blind in the arms of a ghost.
Well In the night do you bow with your head down and
ask god to be there with you?
And if you do, why won't you ask him why I can't be there too?
Are you laughing or crying is somebody there, someone that you want near?
these thoughts of you, they lie down deep where there aren't any tears.
In my sleep I can hear the voice of a woman that's beautiful and young.
Saying "do understand you're none other reasons why I am gone".
No two dreams are alike, but I want to think that if
that were you, I'd know.
In my mind's eye,
A plantation
In the clearing
Is a platform station
In the distance
Is a kingdom
In to the front line
Is how I'm coming
They saw in war
All is fair
I'm heading to the field
In spite of my condition
Whatever you thought
Whatever you thought
You know I told you
I couldn't stop
I couldn't stop
Now through the desert
Out to the sea
Weather-beaten
Through all four seasons
And there is love
In my creation
I've come back
For all the right reasons
I aint your castle
You're not a queen
It isn't yours
That you're so busy there protecting
Whatever you thought
Whatever you thought
You know I told you
I couldn't stop
I couldn't stop
All this beauty
Is sticky sweet
This naughty world
Is due for good deeds
Give me your poor
Your tired masses
Bring me the head
Of the mule in my glasses
Sing that lonesome high melody
Roamin young man,
Down from the mountain out walking the flood
I see the future in this setting sun
Unfolded gardens uncover the earth as it was
Filled with canteens and tear gas
From this last voyage of us
Ain't no gentlemen here hiding wings
The devil himself would be puzzled to give
Any reasons to sink his fingers in
All this voodoo and black magic
Doing the work that was his
With battle songs filling their lungs
Move them out down under the sun
Give them tears for cherry red blood
Stack them old, we cradle them young
World is crazy or maybe just
Holy rollers for love
Split this ocean set these sails
It's down to the seabed we dazzle and fail
Hereafter's bringing more funerals than fairs
And it's a book of blank maps
That's we're using to get us there
To the hilltops my daughter, my son
The rescue's too little to cover the slums
Cross the river deeper than it ever was
There's a pause in the evening
When prayers are supposed to be done
With battle songs filling their lungs
Move them out down under the sun
Give them tears for cherry red blood
Stack them old, we cradle them young
World is crazy or maybe just
Holy rollers for love
Glory glory hallelujah be warned
God is still marching, still raising his sword
Board these windows and guard your stretch of floor
Something sinister's got you the minute you open the door
With battle songs filling their lungs
Move them out down under the sun
Give them tears for cherry red blood
Stack them old, we cradle them young
World is crazy or maybe just holy rollers for love
World is crazy or maybe she's holy rollers for love
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
Im sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope
Im sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mamas little
chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
Ive had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
Just gimme the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope
Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is some truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
It doesn't always have a shape
Almost never does it have a name
It maybe has a pitchfork maybe has a tail
But evil is alive and well
It might walk upright from out of the inferno
May be coming horseback through deep snow
It's ragged and fat hungry as hell
Evil is alive and well
Evil is alive
Evil is well
Evil is alive
Evil is well
On your feet to the tower and yell
Evil is alive and well
May be too humble to want to speak
May have a blood soaked bird in it's teeth
Smoked filled skies and bees in the well
Evil is alive and well
Maybe in a palace it may be in the streets
May be here among us on a crowded beach
May be asleep in a roadside motel
But evil is alive and well
Evil is alive
Evil is well
Evil is alive
Evil is well
On your feet to the tower and yell
Evil is alive and well
It's well
Down in every ditch
Up on every hill
It's well
I've got my radio on
Drowning the bells
When midnight's done and the day won't start
And All I ever gave you was a broken heart
It's hard to admit but it's easy to tell
Lay your worries
Down at your door
Now my loves
Like an open shore
Throw your suitcase
Sweetheart overboard
Now tired eyes
In winter clothes
You ain't got nothing
You can't let go
Now tell your mother
You love her
She already knows
Now Costa Rica
We got nothing to do
Yeah
When the nights
Hang dark
And the sun
Won't burn
You may or may not
Ever return
Going under with you
Now thumb nail moon
Hanging high
So quiet up
There shining bright
Now dance a little
And share
This bottle of wine
No more ups
No more downs
Now love of someday
Has just come around
Watching the clouds
Flowing by while
Our skins
Turning brown
Now Costa Rica
We got
Nothing to do
Yeah
When the nights
Hang dark
And the sun
Won't burn
We may or may not
Ever return
Going under
With you
Now every moments
Been leading to this
We're going somewhere
We won't be missed
Now roll us
Under the waves
With one last kiss
Now when the nights
Hang dark
And the sun
Don't burn
We May or may
Not ever return
Costa Rica
With you, with you
May not we may not
Ever return
May not we may not
Ever return
May not we may not
Ever return
May not we may
In to the arms
Of the unknown
In to the places
We never go
By walking through
Deep snow
Down forgotten roads
Been chasin' a light
That comes and goes
No matter what
There is a new day
On it's way
And no matter what
There is more love
To be made
A crowd of young people
Gather in the park
A black satin skyline
Filling with stars
It's still not
That easy
Hearing your name
I will not pretend
For anyone
I am half the same
No matter what
There is a new day
On it's way
And no matter what
There is more love
To be made
There are dreams
I keep secret
Where I go barefoot
Through gauntlets
Going back
For this old love
I will risk
My neck time
And time again
Be at ease
I'm not leaving
I am fearful
What comes
There is grace
In the madness
When all seasons
Come at once
You are safe
In the arms
Of the unknown
I just need
To remind you
That the brave
They carry on
No matter what
There is a new day
On it's way
And no matter what
There is more love
To be made
No matter what
There is a heartache
On it's way
And no matter what
There is more love
You're gonna say I told you so
I never should have let you go
Ain't it funny that here we are
The two of us in two different bars
In separate cages dancing slow
We ain't got nobody to call our own
You can always go back home
You just might be there alone
I'm drunk and you're insane
I can't quit and you won't change
Ain't no halfhearted romeo
Why do you treat me so?
Like our love's a joke
Hurts too much to laugh
Can't you least smile
When you call me that
Days are harder than you would believe
I ain't having luck making ends meet
If time were money then look at me
I'm richer then a poor man should be
Price of admission is much too steep
For broke uneducated clowns like me
It may be true I was the first to leave
But now I'm begging you please
My heart's on my sleeve
And I'm tipping my hat
Can't you at least smile
When you call me that
Not much is certain but this is true
My arms are useless if they don't have you
They hang around me with nothing to do
I'm hoping you and yours are lonesome too
Neon's buzzing and here I am
Last one standing, last call again
While you're unfolding in a stranger's hands
I'll drink up and be somebody's man
Angels can walk I've seen it before
They turn handles, they open doors
They act like devils, now you've been warned
They'll vanish when love is war
I'm down on my knees
And you won't have me back
But you can at least smile
It's a struggle, it's a scrape
It's all give and no take
Whatever it is now, is right up to our waist
It's a pity, it's a shame to see it all slip away
I've seen you worried babe, but never this way
We hold our ground, we don't kneel
If we go down we go
Down on our own shield
It's a river of tears
And we're in over our ears
In the dark it rides off with our better years
It's a bottomless well
It's a little overkill
It's the end of a dragon's tail
That's whipping around our heels
But we don't bow, we make no deals
If we go down we go
Down on our own shield
In this corner ladies and gentlemen
Weighing in, all along my love for her is strong
We scaled pillars to be here tonight
It's not the kind of trick that you get to pull twice
It's an ambush girl
A cold-blooded low down dirty world
See them yellow lanterns walk
A circle around our bit of earth
It's a turn for the worse
It's off with their heads if they don't learn
We do this over their dead bodies
Before it's over mine or yours
We don't beg for mercy dear
If we go down we go
I was born in the summer of Sam
Smaller and sooner than planned
Oh, in the spitting image of a man
Raised by wolves on the fat of the land
Clear of romance, beauty and damned
Tomorrow will come if she can
Just want a woman who can walk on a wire
With a trembling glass in her hand
Over the hilltops the fire engine rolls
Down the valley deeper still it goes
Got my weapons out, I'm laying low
On this end of the telescope
Alone you ramble the whole of the world
Through black water jungles for bliss
It's feast or famine you eat what you kill
There's no need to bring God into this
My heart is heavy and pressed to the bone
Some people too heavy to hold
Salutations take me as I am
You can have me or leave me alone
Sun kissed lemons in the graveyard below
Here in death you see new adventures grow
I see you at last but mostly a ghost
On this end of the telescope
This will not be easy
Word's out, the doctor is not coming in
This genie's too angry to go back
Into the bottle again
Closer than ever and covered in birds
A bone colored moon fills the west
Now, throats will be slashed and flags will unfurl
As time will divide us in gangs
Now, years of progress digging the sand
Companions we made didn't last
Lousy lovers do well with their hands
But I'll reach you like nobody can
Now, slow and easy you let your paddle go
Down at the bottom there's more hell to row
I see clear at last, I love, I loathe
In a world full of pretty things
You carry out only what you bring in
Square your shoulders
Lift your pack
And lay your feet back down on the track
This is the part where you may want to give in
And I will remind you that we both once said
We were born to stumble and to learn
In a stardust covered universe
We demand the impossible
And tomorrow is earned
Empty apartment, rumbling trains
Eastside village looking good for its age
An ounce of pleasure so quickly became
Another morning with a pound of pain
This is the part where you will say nothing's wrong
I will remind you that you will be strong
We were born to struggle and to yearn
In a stardust covered universe
Where you will find troubles
But you will not be the first
As you travel the white line, stripping the gears
Eyes on the dashboard, hands on the wheel
Running away like you do
You've got to slow your engines
When God is in pursuit
Under a streetlight I call your name
It's only darkness, it's not that late
Now stop your sleeping, pull the blinds
And pour your future in this cup of mine
This is the part where you will dig your heels in
And build a tower where your sadness is
You were born, and soon you will return
From a stardust covered universe
Where the end is certain
Mother, you saw my eyes
On the Fourth of July
Under a banner of roman candles
Mother, war is kind
Like hell, but I am fine
Brother, have you gone west?
Have you followed through once yet?
You are still younger, how dare you forget
Brother, war is best
In the morning when you've had rest
Like a lost dog between houses
In the unknown open country
Line up at dawn to see who's missing
My age is a metaphor
It only speaks of everything before
Daughter, you wear my name
Those are my eyes, keep 'em raised
I may have scars, but I give more than I take
Daughter, war is safe
Where you are far away
Lover, are you gone?
My heart has taken too much on
One octave lower than thunder it drums
Lover, war is done
In more ways than just one
Like a lost dog between houses
In the unknown open country
Like an outlaw now standing
At the foot of infinity
The sun is wild
We'd feel much better if we sunk this treasure
And laid our armor down
These precious metals and these captain's letters
They are no use to us now
In the day we struggle with fatigue much greater
Than any offer was
We bow down and worship these bandits and cowboys
Unable to hold their own guns
I know that soldiers are not paid to think
But something is making us sick
Onward and steady
Able and young
In the valley of the low low sun
In the shade we wander along a highway's shoulder
Into the back of beyond
Burning the daylight into a pastime
That's too wise to come more than once
It's boom boom thunder ain't no sleep coming
Out mining a slippery world
Of snow covered beaches and junkyards of diesel
And bombers named after girls
On bridges of black ice not built for the rush
There's a new kind of beast getting up
That's stranger than fiction
Speaking in tongue
In the valley of the low low sun
Hold on for the slow turning
Smoke if you've got 'em boys
This is bottom hiding out
Down under the stairs
Tomorrow has come
Like it's drunk on the blood
Of the men who have dared to be there
The earth's still climbing as it keeps on grinding
It's way up around the sun
As cool water crashes down to the masses
bootlegged and bottled like rum
My dreams are humble lean as arrows
Streetwise ready and fair
As we bum rush the ages tied to the rails
On high seas not fit to be sailed
Whatever we've taken does feel like heaven
But baby we just look like hell
Act like you mean it where paradise was
In the valley of the low low sun
Act like you mean it where paradise was
I made a promise to not let go
Our tug of war has only made me want you more
Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam
My love is braver than you know
My forefathers, they worked this land
And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature's plans
Dressed in thunder a cloud came around
Oh, in the shape of a lion a hand came down
Now, damn this valley and damn this cold
Well, take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me, will it grow?
Dig my ditches in the golden sun
I'd be robbing these trains if I could catch me one
Now, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday's gone
Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long
Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards
There's a boy in a water tower counting cars
Steel trap open in empty stalls
Now there's a well worn saddle but the horse is gone
Now, damn this valley and damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me, will it grow?
(Will it grow?)
Jet black starlit midnight rolls
I am down in the garden where I let you go
Up on the surface the earth looks round
But it's a godless city of cold flat ground
Now, damn this valley and damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me, will it grow?
Will it grow?
Will it grow?
Meet me out
In the open sky
A perfect storm
Is on the rise
Beyond the city
Moving in as planned
Something comes
From a strange land
A trail of dust
On the building tops
Its everything
Youve wanted
Chorus:
Here comes now
Ready or not
The future
Comes 'round
Much sooner
Than you thought
Here comes now
Ready or not
You rise up
With what you've got
It's much later
Than you thought
Here comes now
Staring out
Over the crowded scene
Ankle deep
In the fallen leaves
I feel the idle
Of a thousand dreams
In every stranger
Passing me
You are not yet
What you will become
Nothing is what it was
(Chorus)
Between whatever comes
And whatever was
Sudden changes
Still somehow found us
If you turn back
Send a letter
My love is contracted
For worse or better
God speed darling
And never stop
Raise hell
With what you've got
I'm worried 'bout you baby
Down in your rabbit hole
The evening of our great escape
Is starting to unfold
Out of bed sleepy head
It's different than you know
Everybody pays as they go
You've got to pull yourself together
Your chin up off your throat
Whistle for the dogs
And get your sled into the snow
Nothing's ever buried
Under skull and bones
Everybody pays as they go
The playing field is level
But it's ugly down below
It's a devil of a handbook hi ho hi ho
Either you're the butcher
Or the lamb but even so
Everybody pays as they go
The future busted open wide and ran
Like a beehive loaded with sand
You can't go back and see it
The way you saw it then
Nobody can
Look up and see the men returning
In their winter coats
Some of them in one piece
Some of them got rolled
Some less than others
Some right through the nose
But everybody pays as they go
Young old rich and poor
Your mother she too owes
Cause everybody pays as they go
You're old enough to know well
The better things are all uphill
Bitter songs are never sung
In the highlands where you belong
In the smoke of cannons below
Men, they bury each other in rows
People come, people go
Work in numbers and leave alone
There's a light making it's way
On up the mountain night and day
And you'll get tired and you'll get weak
But you won't abandon your masterpiece
Off to sleep you'll go
Through the halls and opened doors
Silver bells swinging low
Strung in branches of the unknown
Soon morning comes
To warm the world and wake you up
Night is gone awful fast
It ain't wrong to be sad
There's a light making it's way
On up the mountain night and day
And you'll go down and you'll go deep
But you won't surrender your masterpiece
Oh, here it comes and there it goes
The unbearable sound of the earth making men out of boys
First you learn and then you'll teach
About that bright, bright light
Making it's way
On up the mountain night and day
And you'll get tired and you'll get weak
But you won't abandon your masterpiece
Now there's a light making it's way
On up the mountain night and day
And you'll go down and you'll go deep
But you won't surrender your masterpiece
You won't surrender your masterpiece
I been working double shift all night
Bees make honey, I'm making mine
Good men are busy all the time
I been working double shift all night
My line of work suits me fine
Split that apple and chuck that rind
Pull no wishbone that ain't dry
My line of work suits me fine
Sweet you ramble, sweet you roll
Through the bedrock of my soul
I got more good luck than I'll ever use
All day and all night like a mule
Fat faced farmer, off my land
Cross me twice you'll understand
Me and Delia, we're more than friends
Fat faced farmer off my land
See how high your monkey jumps
Peel that fruit back and give me some
Let this evening do what it does
And see how high your monkey jumps
I'm gearing up not to get small
I do it big or don't do it at all
Ain't got no baggage that I can't use
All day and all night like a mule
It's on back to work they say
Pull your hammer high and straight
Lay your boards out and drag that rake
And get on back to work they say
Give what you've got, return what you use
Tell me young man whose dog are you?
Got bigger secrets than you do
All day and all night like a mule
My line of work suits me fine
My line of work suits me fine
My line of work suits me fine
