Dead Man's Burden

ALL THE LADIES AND THE GENTLEMEN, THE LIFE FORCE WHO LINE UP NOSE TO NOSE JUST LIKE THE HUNGRY ROWS OF ESKIMOS AND THOSE OF US WITH RAVAGED FACES RARELY LAUGHED AND TOOK OUR PLACES LOOKED OURSELVES SQUARE IN THE MIRROR COWARDS CAUGHT IN FROZEN FEAR OF DELICATE AND DIFFICULT THE SUGAR MIXING WITH THE SALT WE KNOW IT'S NEITHER TRUTH OR FACT WE KNOW IT'S NOT EXACTLY THAT IT'S OVER SOON, IT WILL BE OVER SOON JUST LIKE THE BUFFALO WE KILLED THE BUFFALO IT'S ONLY THEN WHEN NEAR TO DEATH WE LEARN TO LOVE OUR LIVES AGAIN LIKE WHEN WE WERE BUT LITTLE CHILDREN RUNNING WILD AMONG THE FIELDS OF GRASS DID YOU EVER WONDER WHY ON EARTH WE'RE PUT HERE FOR ALWAYS BENT AROUND WHO'S FINGER ONE AMONG THE SAD AND LONELY WITH NO DIMENSION ALL THAT EVER CAME BETWEEN ONCE WERE ALWAYS NEVER ASKING OPEN HALF A MIND TO QUESTION AND THE WOLVES ARE CIRCLING ROUND THE HUDDLED SHIVERING AND THE HOLY HUMAN RACE THAT ONLY KNOWS WHAT'S ON OUR FACES WHEN WE'RE TIRED OF PRETENDING AND AT LAST OUR FENCES MENDING AND A LOVE THAT'S NEVER ENDING LAY IT DOWN A DEAD MAN'S BURDEN AND ALL IN COLD DESPAIR SKYSCRAPERS SCRAPE THE AIR IN THE LONELY HOMES WE MAKE THE COLD WAR IS OVER YEAH, THE COLD WAR IS DONE THE COLD WAR IS OVER BUT THE WOUNDS THEY LINGER ON WHEN I WAS JUST A KID I WANDERED OFF AND HID IN THE QUIET CORNERS OF MY OWN A SOLITARY THIEF WHO BORROWED WORDS TO MAKE ME BELIEVE AND THEN THE SKIES THEY OPENED WIDE ALL THE BROKEN-HEARTED TRYING TO SURVIVE BUT THE WORLD KEEPS SPINNING IT'S THE WHEEL OF LIFE WE'RE OUT OF SYNC WE'RE OUT OF TIME WE'RE OUT OF TOUCH WE'RE OUT OF TIME WE'RE OUT OF SYNC WE'RE OUT OF TIME AS WE LAY WITHIN EACH OTHER IN THE BACKWOODS AND THOSE WITH MATCHING MEMORIES ARE SCRIBBLING CRYPTIC CHRONICLES OVERLAPPED WITH FINE DISTRACTIONS NEVER STOPPING ONCE TO CATCH OUR BREATHS COLLECTIVE NEVER NOW REGRET OR YEARNING BROKEN DOWN WE ARE BUT BUBBLES ON THE SURFACE DESTINED BUT TO DISAPPEAR SOME TAKEN FROM US ALL TOO SOON WE KNOW THAT LIFE IS NEVER FAIR WE'LL ALL BE GONE YES, WE WILL ALL BE GONE JUST LIKE THE BUFFALO WE KILLED THE BUFFALO WHILE HIGH ABOVE THE DARK BLUE VAULT WHERE FREEDOM SAYS IT'S NO ONE'S FAULT THE TIME HAS COME I'M FINALLY CERTAIN LAY IT DOWN A DEAD MAN'S BURDEN NOW I'VE STARTED DOWN A PATH THAT IS UNCHARTED AND IT SEEMS THAT I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME NOW I'VE STARTED DOWN A PATH THAT IS UNCHARTED AND IT SEEMS THAT I'LL NEVER BE THE SAME