Old Glory Lyrics

Well, we're rolling out west

Where the blacktop kills

With a pack of cigarettes

And a belly full of pills

There's a girl out there

And she's street-fighting

Past the mighty Mississip

And the dry lightning

If you read my hand

Can you read my mind

If you do then you'll know

Why we run and hide

And if you give everything

That's been asked of you

You’ll get spit out alone

With sullen mud on your boots

It's said that

Laying down roots

Will get you buried in the dirt

So I want to be

Where there's no trees to remind me

I'll manifest

I'll manifest

My own destiny

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

Now it's all eyes front

As the future dawns

Make ready the intrepid

Or you can't keep up

Yes, you must go forward

Ever-onward

Looking back will only

Break your neck

I'm a diction-impaired lost-boy

From my lungs down to my shoes

Eviscerated

Demonstration of

Walking pale-dog blues

And if I

Really wanted to find myself

I'd have to dig myself six feet down

Push aside the earth

That covers up the reasons

Why I blew this town

To manifest

I'll manifest

My own destiny

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

Give me wide open frontier

Give me blue-field skies

Life in motion-perpetual

Can help to clear my blurry mind

Ease my poor blurry mind

Now it's all back east

In a city called Tomorrow

Where you live sky-high

In the chrome of the hollow

I'll exhaust myself

Of words for you

Saying everything and nothing

But you still see through

And I'd travel any distance

I'd travel many moons

To be by your side

In troubled times

And face this dusk with you

So won't you

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

Wrap me

In Old Glory

Wanna be a dust-covered man

And my friend, if we don't make it

It's been an honor and a privilege

To make this stand with you