Well, no ones gonna tell you how to die in the dirt
No one's gonna tell you how much it can hurt
No one's gonna teach you how to take your first breath
No one's gonna give you an honorable death

You’ll have to do it alone

The burden of dreams!
The burden of dreams!
I challenge you to the burden of dreams!
No self culture, a sorrowful thing
But who knows
Who knows what it could bring?
A mind that’s empty, the souls a spring
Spilling, spilling unconscious dreams
Not a single original thought in the world
But a feeling that must be caught and unfurled
The rocks are weeping ancient water
Pure as the day it fell from the sky
Go on tell your sons and daughters
You can’t help them when they die

They’ll have to do it alone

Discord in an open tuning
Music like a storm looming
Funnels off on the horizon
Monsoons and the waters rising
You know that nothing you own
Will be a comfort for you
That what you seek is a home
That door is open for you

The laboring class, the laboring class
I wanna be in the laboring class
Brothers, brothers, brothers of dirt
I believe in the labor of man
A bell, a belly, a belly of lead!
The soft spot in a baby’s head
The river dives beneath the land
Nothing goes quite as planned
The best of us will not survive it
Crossing to the other side
Breaking through the caliche
Death will take us, not our bribes
You know the song that I sing
Oh, I’m singing for you
Yes, this hammer that rings
Oh, it's ringing for you

Work one day
Just a day, just a day
No I don’t belong to you
I belong, I belong
To the cow power crew!

Everything is all consuming
Happening in every thought
It's a question of digestion
There's a hunger in the rot
This old world is but a stomach
Cattle rattling in your head
Ruminating on the thought
That they are wanting to be fed
Hear them moan at dusk and dawn
Baby’s crying for the boob
I don’t know what's goin' on
I’m just hungry for some food
Let it pass right through my body
Discard what I cannot use
Cow power runs the farm
This manure is our muse

Buried mirror, show yourself!
We are digging for you now
We are blind without reflection
We are lost and won't be found
Show us now the headless serpent
Crawling creases in mothers face
Show us mountains dreams of lava
Show us now the human race
Lost wax cast of ancient forest
We dream the dream of land escape
Land escape but we are bound
Pressed into the living ground
Our dreams become one dream now
Dreams become one dream now
Our dreams become one dream now
Dreams become one dream now

And I can’t do that alone
I can’t do that alone
Can’t do it alone
Yeah I can't it alone,
No I can't do it alone
I can’t do it alone