Waterboys "Bury my heart" |
Bury my soul Where the dust meets the sea Turn it loose in a lonely place Where a man can still be free Make up my clothes and sheets in a ball Put them in the ground Tell my children only truths And teach them to be proud Tell them dreams and miracles And when the thunder starts Bury my heart I'm born a traveling trouper But I laid my wings to rest Once I beat myself in vengeance Now I feather up my nest There are flags in my backyard Colors on my wall I pay my servant well But I make the bastard crawl And I pretend no blessed evil So I don't hear that thunder start Bury my heart There's a lily in the valley Where I bought the news to Lo I offered him my visions But the heathen rose to go So I drew my shining saber And I slew my sinning friend A Christian burial was all he needed To make him whole again Then I looked up way above me And God rent the sky apart Bury my heart We're God's chosen people This and other truths I know I put them into vicious practice Because my bible tells me so And I drowned the noble savage In the blessed holy water I fired his filthy village I civilized his daughter There are liars in the world Who say we shame the blood of Christ But killing is His mercy And nits grow into lice And all the gooks I napalmed I did it in His name And when the fools put me on trial I shouted out, "I'm not to blame" I did it for Him, I did it for Him I did it for Him, He made me do it He tore the heavens apart Bury my heart Now I'm going to the wilderness On a horse that I can trust And I'll die where I fall In the hot dry dust And if you come to this place Remember this truth That only the mountains live forever Only the earth endures So will you bury my soul Where the dust meets the sea? And will you bury my heart At wounded knee? Lyric from www.lyricmania.com |