Dislocation Blues

Everything is silent Night upon the rocks I'm over by the roadhouse With them rusted engine blocks A ghost town with a gold mine A pick axe in my head I'm beggin', mama, please move over Kick them stones out of my bed I met my sister Sandra With them

Map's a crooked tangle of sin Take eternity to unravel The rarified air is thin Unbreathed down in the rabble It's all wrong It's taken so long To build this road That leads down You're not a silver but a tin Fill your bucket up with gravel So well-t

Sixteen years Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves Fortune calls I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace Merchants an