Mama, take this badge off of me
Whatever you gonna do,;
Please do it fast.
The sky is erupting, I must go where it's quiet.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears;
In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors;
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years;
For dignity
I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead
And every one of them words rang true;
And glowed like burnin' coal;
Pourin' off of every page;
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Goodnight, my love, may the lord have mercy on us all.
Let the wind blow low, let the wind blow high.;
One day the little boy and the little girl were both baked in a pie.
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
If God's on our side;
He'll stop the next war.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I got troubles, I think maybe you got troubles,;
I think maybe we'd better leave each other alone.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door;
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
If the bible is right, the world will explode
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here,;
All the pigeons gonna run to him.
This wheel shall explode!
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.
Don't trust me to show you the truth;
When the truth may only be ashes and dust.
Cities on fire, phones out of order
What good am I if I know and don't do,;
I If I see and don't say, if I look right through you
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.
Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn't it?
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,;
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory,;
And all your ragin' glory.
