Dustland Hymn

Mercy calling for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You can bite your tongue you can hide and run But you never come back from the Dustlands Black rain coming down oh my Everybody's saying that we all gon' die Black rain everybody get hurt Rattle at your chains but it ain't gon' work Now the roots burn deep set the ground on fire And the night sky's enough to drive a killer insane There's a face in the sand shouting nowhere man And the wind is alive and it knows your name Can you smell the lamb's meat cooking on a spit Burning on the bonfire pouring red wine (swallow it down) Pillars of basalt crack the ground and the walls Of the inside cliffside (pour another round) You can never feel pain I say All the memories fade one day You take a sharp left turn at the end of the world You might find yourself in the Dustlands Singing mercy calling for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You can spit your lungs at the mindless sun But you never come back from the Dustlands (My god) it's a long way down now (My god) it's a goddamn shame (My god) isn't taking any calls now (My god) don't have no name It's hard in the Dustlands Ain't no one gonna save you in the Dustlands Every step you take playing dice with fate And you're never gonna win 'cause they own that game It's hard like an obelisk Like the bat-winged thing in the necropolis Someone scratched your name in a black stone grave In a plot at the center of the Dustlands Screaming mercy calling for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You can bring your gun you can beat your drum But you never come back from the Dustlands (Praise) the one who, in the darkness (Preys) on the deaf and the blind and lame (Praise) the man with his eyes burned out who (Prays) to the god who broke his cane Spent eight years in the backrooms Crawling up the walls 'cause I had to I danced and sang in a land called Leng Crying at the sound of the pan flute I stepped between reflections Carcosa's brutal with its twin suns I saw my sign at the edge of time But I won't set foot in the Dustlands There's no mercy calling for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You can bite your tongue you can hide and run But you never come back from the Dustlands Call the priest grab the holy water Strap down grab the crucifix She's cleaning off her knives for the slaughter Call a black mass just in case I took a bite of a Smith and Wesson Spent time in hell for a lesson The devil let me go said I had no soul Said I lost it back in the Dustlands There ain't no mercy calling for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You can never come back, no you never come back No you never come back, no you never come back from the (There's no motherfucking) mercy for the mad man screaming Mercy coming from the dead god dreaming You've been out too long and it feels like home And you'll never come back from the Dustlands