Yesterday You Were a Mountain

"Yesterday You Were a Mountain but Today You're Just a Stone" (Lyrics)

Send declarations to the head swine
Tell 'em a new gunfighter's in town
Break promises like dealt cards
On the house another round
Keep a finger on your pulse
Pay your respects to the dead
Climb a peak and hear a wise man
Then forget every word he said

Build castles out of tree trunks
Dig trenches in the sand
Go to a foreign country
Fresh blood's in high demand
Strange rain clouds all around us
With eight-hundred pound drops
Splashing flames and spilling brains
And burning down all the crops

Send the flowers to the grievers
Take the idols from the throne
Yesterday you were a mountain
But today you're just a stone

Paint me up a hero
And set me loose on the ground
Tell my baby that I love her
And put a mussel on the hound
Kiss the princess of the phonebook
Take pin and scratch her name
Yesterday she was a woman
But tonight she'll be my dame

Hear the rattle of a nightstick
Within a noir dream
Send the letter to the governor
Telling him I won't redeem
Throw pennies at a rich man
And brick shards at the blind
Sell your arms to octopuses
It's not like anyone will mind

Send the flowers to the grievers
Take the idols from the throne
Yesterday you were a mountain
But today you're just a stone

Send a pipeline to the devil
Take a shovel to the bones
Buy a hundred million rebels
Send them all to Davy Jones
Give the balladeers my wishes
When you feed them to the lions
You can put a price tag on religion
But you can't make coal out of diamonds

Pat the backs of your opponents
Put another plaque on the wall
Start up another movement
Then leave the bandwagon in stall
Toss postcards in the trashcan
Take up living like a mole
When you're everything that you once hated
Then I guess it's time to roll

Send the flowers to the grievers
Take the idols from the throne
Yesterday you were a mountain
But today you're just a stone

Copyright February, 2003

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