Bury My Heart

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

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?