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Bury My Heart
Lyricist:Michael Scott
Bury my soul Where the dust meets the sea Turn it loose in a lonely place Where a man can still be free
Make up my clothes and sheets in a ball Put them in the ground Tell my children only truths And teach them to be proud
Tell them dreams and miracles And when the thunder starts Bury my heart
I'm born a traveling trouper But I laid my wings to rest Once I beat myself in vengeance Now I feather up my nest
There are flags in my backyard Colors on my wall I pay my servant well But I make the bastard crawl
And I pretend no blessed evil So I don't hear that thunder start Bury my heart
There's a lily in the valley Where I bought the news to Lo I offered him my visions But the heathen rose to go
So I drew my shining saber And I slew my sinning friend A Christian burial was all he needed To make him whole again
Then I looked up way above me And God rent the sky apart Bury my heart Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com
We're God's chosen people This and other truths I know I put them into vicious practice Because my bible tells me so
And I drowned the noble savage In the blessed holy water I fired his filthy village I civilized his daughter
There are liars in the world Who say we shame the blood of Christ But killing is His mercy And nits grow into lice
And all the gooks I napalmed I did it in His name And when the fools put me on trial I shouted out, 'I'm not to blame'
I did it for Him, I did it for Him I did it for Him, He made me do it He tore the heavens apart Bury my heart
Now I'm going to the wilderness On a horse that I can trust And I'll die where I fall In the hot dry dust
And if you come to this place Remember this truth That only the mountains live forever Only the earth endures
So will you bury my soul Where the dust meets the sea? And will you bury my heart At wounded knee?
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