I guess you don't have to go out
If you really don't wanna go out
But you could use a walk
And lift those shoulders up too
Like you wanna

Make sure those fangs are showin
And greet 'em with a grin that glows red
With total radiance
Just keep the gradient tuned
And keep it on 'em

(ahhhh ahhh)

Easier said
It's different to do it
The thought was well meant
But it's different to do it
Yourself

You used to be a wolf in sheep skin clothes
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf go
Well god only knows

Something's out there singing like a kettle
Something's howlin out in the backyard
That rotten ring shrieks so sour, so unsettled
Something's howlin out in the backyard
Could be sheets of metal all whistlin together
Something's howlin out in the backyard
And the song it sings tells of demons and of devils
Something's howlin out in the backyard

And the light that shines from a belly bright yellow
Brings (ah) creatures of the night out to bellow
To wince and to bark, to coo and to caw
To treat you as the yellow-bellied dweller that you are

Oh, something's out there screaming like a kettle
Something's howlin out in the backyard
A racket, a racket, uproarious revel!
Something's howlin out in the backyard
Could be throat-worn ghosts, lost stalking rebels
Something's howlin out in the backyard
With one voice raised as a devistating treble
Something's howlin out in the backyard

And I haven't seen the (ah) wolf in ages now
Not even when the mynah birds come calling out
You used to have a howl that sent shivers through town
You can hardly get a wimper out now

Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf
Where did the wolf go?

Well god only knows

Oh my oh, I'll go for what you know
Who I own I know, I owe who knows who
I own my home or owe who knows who I owe
Why own when you can just

Sell it

Oh my oh, I'll go for what you know

Buy the city sell the farm
Either or / Either or
Either or / Either or not

Cause I could throw a rock 
And put a hole
In the yard behind the beehive rows
Set along my road
Straighter than the treeline grows

We'll see this country in a car
Dinner in dining halls
Give to the grind and haul out
And let 'em tear the barn down
And let 'em put up
A new line of beehive rows
Well, I just couldn't call it my own any more
When they blocked up the road
W here the first would go

So let's die out 

I know not to meddle
To keep off the path this steamroller runs
Been all set and settled
Since day one they've wanted

What I own I know, I owe who knows
Who I owe I know, I own who knows

Those gloves just take 'em off
Move before the city moves to us
And sucks the simple parts of living out from under us
Move before the city moves to us, to us, to us

So let's die out.

The greatest forest fire burned our forest down

For all those millmen who cut their teeth
Whose minds were made up on roof and feed
I’ll come and I’ll leave
Aching from a night in the city
It might ruin me now, but I’d probably already be ruined

For skin burned black with coal and grease
That stuck to their lungs whenever they’d breathe
I’ll come and I’ll leave
Tempted by the lights of the city
No clowning around
T onight we’re going out to get ruined

And I probably woulda never have thought
If it weren’t written on metal
That this is very old ground that you’re running from
Can’t look for long, gotta be left and gone by five
To be half-seas over by nine
And bleeding drunk by midnight

Forever indebted to the feats of our fathers
But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse
Laid out flat, gaspin’
All the trouble you attract
With cause to match
Would bring a quick collapse
If you always had to carry that

If the gear wheel goes
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’)

When the wallower rolls
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’)

Next thing you know
(There’s gonna be a flood comin’ on)

And the water won’t spare us
(The water won’t spare us)

If it comes to get us
(If it comes to get us)

And it won’t let up ‘til all that’s dear and precious is gone
And our hearts all screech a hault
Whenever there’s a flood coming on

And when that flood comes it comes as a canon
One that lets you catch the shot in your hands
But just to send its shocking tidal wave
Through every bone in your body
Dealt our hands, mine’s low on luck
If you’re all going out you can sign me up
Seems the only time that I can collect my thoughts
Is if I’m bleeding, stinking drunk (so drink up)

We’ll admit in the names of our fathers
But carry it on your back, it’s a sure collapse
Laid out flat, gaspin’
All the trouble you attract, with cause to match
Would bring a quick collapse
If you always had to carry that

And even though the doubt we all felt
Came to prove itself
The overflow came down
With a force we never dreamed off
When that rolling canon shot
Rolls along again, our guard is up
All the damage and all we’ve lost
Lost it all with a canon shot

Holler satisfied!

Like water from a whale spout
The spraying veils its ground
What's dug inside the body
A black gasp bubbling out

Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A mountain is a mouth eating up the sky
Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A valley cuts the tongue from its gullet 

Who knows who will say what now?

Old as the water we sigh
A mountain is a mouth eating up the sky
Oh as the ocean is bled dry
A valley cuts the tongue from its gullet 

Who knows who will say what now?

Sigh along and our sighs align
We'll set a table and drink some wine
Fine tether of the moon-yard view
You pause as the pleasure misconstrues
Whats real and what's entombed
Sigh along or silence be
Be our song

And it calms me down
Don't try to calm me down
Hey hoorah
Don't try to calm me down

And the whale is sleeping
The tongue's inclined
And we spout and speak to reveal the rush
as it bubbles out

And it calms me down

The one whose shame is left too long
Is the one whose name is lost along the
Clear and shallow shore

A reflection in the water stays
The thing it grew upon is an ashen sail
No more
Turn straw to gold how can you hold
Onto the courage to own a name
To think of raising up out of these seas
The thing that I will raise up is a dress I weave myself
Of freshly plucked anemones

So collect the flowers
In the shallow water all along the shore
And take them away with you
The eye and a reflection of an eye
Is what that flower sees
A space we've learned here too
Turn straw to gold
What can you hold onto the courage to own a name
To think of raising up out of these seas
The thing that I will raise up is a dress I weave myself
Of freshly plucked anemones

And I'll be in the water
See my hand come through the water
And their eyes do close up tight

And when they open again a sail is born

Fallow from the loss of sun
Fields turn into spoil
And sought along the arid plains
For food left in the soil
And all the mothers, fathers with,
Their water and their wood
Give life to an inheritor
Relieved not understood

I come from a line of crooks
Bitter and brittle men
So I won't be around when those
Wedding bells ring
But I'm mean and marked up enough
To give you my hand
With none of my roots showing

So leave me a little privacy
Don't call, don't come around at all
Leave me a little decency
And call off all your dogs
Or their collars are coming off

Following the loss of laws
Saying in their turn
For every man to live his life
She'll have to last and burn
And all the brothers, sisters, mothers,
Fathers and their sons, will
Be passed along the daily deal
Alike the day before

La da, da da, da da, da da, la da

Don't get like that
Don't recoil back in silence
All that I ask is just a couple of seconds
In private

Leave me a little privacy
Don't call, don't come around at all
Leave me a little decency
And call off all your dogs

Oh, I'm sorry darlin', you're just gonna have to choose
It's either me or the elephant in the room
I can't stand to lose ya, I can't stand to lose ya
But it's either me or the elephant in the room

I been drinkin all day
And day before
When i get sober
Ain't gonna drink no more

Well they'll call you sugar
And they'll call you pie
They'll take all your money
Call you country guy

Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move babe, sugar where they don't 'low you
No they don't, no they don't

Walkin down fifth street, twenty-nine Vale
Lookin' for that woman that sell cocaine

Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move to Kansas City, sure as your born
Gonna move babe, sugar where they don't 'low you
No they don't, no they don't

Break the glass and pull the lever
And file down the tracks with everybody else
And all the gentlemen sniff out the girls in dresses
And all the decent kids with dirt in their nails

Someone has to warn 'em

The folks on the Northbound
Better warn 'em
Or the Southbound
Will run us down

Down