Over land, I traveled time and space and quicksand And for sixty days I knew no other road And through the maelstrom, we turned in time with the kick
When it comes calling, will you heed the call? When it gets heavy, now, will you let it fall? And as the loon cries, it opens minds The stream reflects
Come make your complaint to Bootleg Saint (He's been gone, keepin' on, keepin' on for your freedom) Black boots, brown skin, he's chemical roots He's
Ooh, it's got me mystified, heavy now Deep down to my soul You try to keep the wheel steady now Easy as she goes I can hear on the wind A tale that needs
We are descendants of the free We are the soldiers of the cause We shouted out the same decree To hold the truth above the law Those were the nights
You feel the weight of the world on your shoulder As every day gets shorter and colder And hand in hand we walk through a land of fire The mountains bleed
He was born in a small town And he was given every reason to stay Hallelujah, Mississippi Postcard living no sign of decay Till Vietnam moved next door
The cinematic after effects of alcohol Have led me to believe That there's nothing more beautiful Than a face as it starts to fade From your memory What
No one feels more alone than The children of a dying breed You never feel at home when you're Just another mouth to feed I wanna live in geological time
This is love at the end of the world You don't need diamonds and you don't need pearls Water boils on the seven seas Rivers of blood and she's setting
Witness the end of the empire, the Romans of our time Start little fires then they get too high You fan the flames and they still remain Long after you
I've been dragged from the deep, out of my restless slumber And told to fight to keep my world from goin? under And time won't stop when the land is torn
I see nothin? at all But I hear that I'm caught in the crossfire, oh And fear keepin? me low, low to the ground And it's clear that what I don't know
I'm a pilgrim like you, I was only passin? through You'll never know my name, you'll never walk in my shoes I've been no use to my friends, I've been
You could never compromise I could never satisfy you at all Always thought you had gentle eyes Then you've had me institutionalized (Twice before) Before
I've been sold down the river And I've been told that Jesus delivers But don't believe everything that you bleed It may mean nothing to you But it means
You only miss it when it's long gone You only hear it when it's our song These are the echoes of the dream time This is a message from another life This
These words don't come easy They spit from my lips Then we never had it easy It slipped from our fingertips When we met, you laughed at me And stole