From the clatter of Honky tonk

To the quiet of the range

Been thinkin bout silence golden

Golden silence change

Burning nights gets damper

And only one moon was cool

As the steam of danger rose

From a ripple-less darkened pool

Came to America stopped out in the west

Ain't no shotgun rider alligator on my chest

Hotbed of indifference seedbed of so-so

It's push and shove - lord above

what a way to go



Don't say that you love me

Just say you might

You keep holding me

To things you think are right



Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh

Land of hope and glory



Seen foreign soldiers

Beachhead, army ducks

Seen local farmers

In their big red pick up trucks

Seen drugstore cowboys

Who could not find the range

Seen fools in the city

Who could do with a change



Dined with bog business

And I stood for the toast

Shunned those screenplay writers

In their big home on the coast

Stood in catherdrals

And breathed hard at the sight

Heard rhetoric

Do I need that stuff tonight