She broke down, on a highway Miles from nowhere, it had no number She was lost, a long way from home She was fed up with the routine She got trouble
With eyes of fire No one can see The smoke from the sweet grass Covers me I am drawn I am drawn to her Like a moth to a flame She leads me down Unbound
Benedictine, sister to Isis and the Black Madonna Mysteries and magic and goddess of the Nile She could read the stars Knew the secrets of the day And
They say the Axman's coming In a long, black car They said the Axman's coming He plays a mean guitar Well, he slipped across the border With a hatchet
One man's trash is another man's treasure One man's pain is another man's pleasure Play too hard, play too rough And someday someone's gonna call your
I wonder where it all began Was it in a place or in the heart? Was it outside in the pouring rain? In the darkness where the dreaming starts If I end
From the Chitlin' Circuit to the Peppermint Lounge Been run off more than once for goin' underground Where I met an old blues-man with a walking cane
There's gonna be a change of season Indian summer look around and it's gone Why you wanna save the best for last We grow up so slowly and grow old so
We headed straight south in a sundown light On highway sixty one through the delta night We shared the back roads with card sharks and grifters Tent show
The crow has brought the message to the children of the sun For the return of the buffalo and for a better day to come You can kill my body, you can damn
These are the people of the longhouse These are the people that you tried to break These are the people of the pines Who follow the code of Handsome Lake
In this dusty little railroad town Smack in the heart of the bible belt Where nothing ever changes While nothing remains the same When first I saw the
Hide in the bayou under the gun Been to the house of the rising sun Come down here trying to make a connection Must have a bad sense of direction Go
Pay no mind to his messed up hair Pay no mind to the clothes he wears It's just the hours he's been keepin' Ain't been doing too much sleeping They dyed
You know we have a million stories to tell I'm just one of a million or more stories that could be told Sacrifice your freedom Sacrifice your prayer
Sonny got caught in the moonlight A wanted man with a haunted heart Sonny found out the hard way Playing for keeps, loser weeps He said he'd come back
The cry of the city like a siren's song Wailing over the rooftops the whole night long Saw a shooting star like a diamond in the sky Must be someone's
When I got back to my hometown I saw the ghosts of yesterday And my Godmother bless her soul She still lives down this way Remember, when I was just
