Blood from a stone

Water from wine

Born under earplay design

A stroke of bad luck

Wrong place, wrong time

Let's fly up out of the lime



The story is a sad one, told many times

The story of my life in trying times

Just add water, stir in lime

How the west was won and where it got us



Canary got trapped, the uranium mine

A stroke of bad luck, now the bird has died

A marker to mark where my tears run dry

I cross it, bless it, alkali



The story is a sad one, told many times

The story of my life in trying times

Just add water, stir in lime

How the west was won and where it got us



I didn't wear glasses cause I thought it might rain

Now I can't see anything

I made a mistake, chalked it up to design

I cracked through time, space, godless and dry

I point my nose to the northern star

Watch the decline from a hazy distance



The story is a sad one, told many times

The story of my life in trying times

Just add water, stir in lime

How the west was won and where it got us