The New Wild West Lyrics

[00:00][00:00]The New Wild West

[00:16][00:16]You see the ghost of the buffalo moving both fierce and slow

[00:21][00:21]Like glittering prophesies on the edge of the horizon

[00:29][00:29]As you drive glittering highways and beaten-up byways

[00:34][00:34]That straddle and girdle our great and many-faced nation

[00:42][00:42]You see the lambs in the ghettos who worship their Gepettos

[00:46][00:46]Believing in, never seeing, the strings they think bind them

[00:54][00:54]So we write to our congressmen with bleeding pens of the sorrow within

[01:01][01:01]And in return, they just send tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show

[01:10][01:35][02:32][02:57][03:57][04:22][01:10][01:35][02:32][02:57][03:57][04:22]Welcome to the new wild west

[01:19][02:42][04:06][01:19][02:42][04:06]Each man for himself

[01:27][01:27]Civilized steeples

[01:30][02:53][04:18][01:30][02:53][04:18]And lonely people

[01:44][01:44]There are so many factions and cue-card reactions

[01:48][01:48]It's hard to keep clear the possibilities here 'cause there's no force to unite them

[01:58][01:58]Privilege has ruled for thousands of years

[02:03][02:03]Wars have been fought with bibles and tears

[02:07][02:07]Yet liberation can't deny the temptation and soon becomes the oppressor

[02:15][02:15]Show me a leader who's fit to lead

[02:20][02:20]Who don't sow his seed in anything wounded enough to breed

[02:24][02:24]Because after all, what fun is power if you can't act like a rock star?

[02:49][04:14][02:49][04:14]A nation of civilized steeples

[03:21][03:21]As for me, I've been petty

[03:24][03:24]Oh, and unkind, but I know my own mind

[03:28][03:28]And since it seems clear there's no one leading us here

[03:32][03:32]The only thing left it appears is to task ourselves to be better each time, than those before us

[03:39][03:39]We'll be an army of thieves, of self-freed slaves, of mild-mannered maids

[03:46][03:46]We'll fight with whispers and blades

[03:48][03:48]So get ready, a new day is dawning