Taking Alcatraz

So richard oaks gave me a call

From san francisco late in the fall

He said it's going down

He said we're gonna take the island

As monument to the smallpox blankets and the bureaucrats

All you got to do is come along

You catch a bus tomorrow

And if we die there

Well at least we make a choice

If we were fine there

We can tell boys

That the line it the sand

Don’t matter you don’t care

That a bird in the hand is worthless if you're too scared

So clear my name and clear my throat

Find my voice and here we go again

I need a place to stand

I hear sirens down the street from the 3rd shift bar

Im gonna park my car in the painted off place where the bikers park

See what happens then

And if i die here well at least i made a choice

If i am fine here just please tell the boys

That a line in the sand don’t matter

You dont care

That bird in the hand is worthless if you're too scared

My friends keep calling

I don’t pick up

Ive nothing to say that i can’t just make up anyway

Ive got all this shit to do

Ive turned you off on the radio

I turn around it's in a tv show

I turn that off too

I remember when i knew you

And if i'm fine here well i made my choice

If i die here please just tell the boys

That a line in the sand don’t matter

You dont care

That a bird in the hand is worthless you're too scared

That a line in the sand don’t matter

You don't care

That bird in the hand is worthless you are too scared