Clear Skies

Up on the hill by the old copper beech

We got a wooden shack

So worn, you could grind it down with your teeth

Here you do nothing but kick back

Nothing but thick smoke and good times get out of that shack

Downtown people look troubled, pale and diseased

Some folk juggled round with the big rocks

Now they have to fish them out of the stream

Up here I tell you - the Greeks, got nothing on me

Ancient, Modern, Myth whatever, got none on me

Wherever we go things are looking fine

Pa always said, boy don’t you ever go stronger than wine

But I never fancied no dogma, I’ll rather ride between the lines

When it gets too hot at night, we lay in the dew

Tab into a memory and string it to a tune

Pass it all around, I tell you - I’ll cut a monolith out of you

Saw something pretty roll off the mountain slope

It just kept tumbling on down the hill, now I’m not sure where I’m going

Winter made my legs stiff and cold

But no more aches and frowns

Cuz the seeds have been laid, for another day

The head must bow now, and the back will ache

Put my money on a horse’s tail, but then we saw she had four wooden legs

That creature, she ain’t taking home no race

I’ll be handing my soul over to corporate goons

Turn a blind eye to those who suffer on the news

Do whatever it takes - to be lying right next to you

Got lost in the horizon, I was turning blind

Thunder and lightning further up woke my mind

I put the hammer on the table, said boy – how many fingers do you plan on keeping tonight?

Then bury this here tool

Before we both will be screaming like fools

I’ve been rolling with the coal wagons now, east and west

This old diesel cuts the horizon into halves, thirds and fifths

And I’m gaining age in a slower rateLLL than the rest

My girl she’s tougher than the rest

This engine cuts mountains into dust

And we’ll blow past whatever there’s left - out there in the wild

I’ll be drinking my liquor in this city here tonight

Tomorrow I’ll be passing on along down the line

I’m done selling myself to the highest bidder

I’ll take it day by day now

Till my corpse is dragged away like litter