I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want. A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon. Down here only rich
Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first
tracks that came down from your house. To make it look like suicide had always been your plan. Now I wanna burn, I wanna burn, Not only you can burn. I wanna burn this signal fire
you can dance on tabletops. You'd better light a fire, underneath yourself, You'd better light a fire, right here where it counts, You'd better light a fire
Got an earthquake shack near Elbe. Got a garden of dyin' cars. Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road. And at night I can hear the lockjaw
Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything. We lit this valley with atomic power, But the
Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but
Lead you over to the water, Said "Hold it down until it does not breathe." Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to
Promise me my soul to keep. And promise me you'll never sleep. And promise me that when it's over, We will drink the whole world sober. Promise
The sky is always heavy here, And the mules they roam in packs. And the skulls we dragged from waterholes, By the woodshed in a stack. And fear
Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse. He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst. Nobody knew where he came
gotta do, is look around. You can change the darkness Into somethin' proud. But up in the graveyard, Some things never change. Now he still lies 'neath the mill fire