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JEWEL lyrics : "The New Wild West"

You see the ghosts of the buffalo
Moving both fierce and slow
Like glittering prophesies

On the edge of the horizon

As you drive glittering highways

And beaten-up by-ways
That straddle and girdle
A great and many-faced nation


There are lambs in the ghettos
Who worship their Gapettos

Believing in, though never seeing
The strings they think bind them


So you write to our congressmen
With bleeding pens
Of the sorrow within

And in return they just send
Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show


[CHORUS:]
Welcome to the new wild west
Each man for himself

A nation of civilized steeples
And lonely people
Welcome to the new wild west


There are so many fractions
And cue-card reactions

It's hard to keep clear
The possibilities here
'Cause there's no force to unite them


Privilege has ruled for thousands of years
Wars have been fought with bibles and tears

Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
And soon becomes the oppressor


Show me a leader who's fit to lead
Who don't sew his seed in anything
Wounded enough to breed

Because after all what fun is power
If you can't act like a rock star?


[CHORUS]

See me, I've been cruel

I've been petty and unkind
But I know my own mind
And since it seems clear

There's no one leading us here
The only thing left it appears
Is to task ourselves to be better each time

Then those before us

We'll be an army of theives

Of self-freed slaves
Of mild-mannered maids
We'll fight with whispers and blades

So get ready, a new day is dawning

[CHORUS]

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