Stranger

I'm alive like a sprouting seed
Like the deepest roots of an ancient tree
I did not come here for the bread
No I have come to wake the dead

And they'll say tell us Jack, what do you say?
Where will you go, now what does it mean?
Come on boys, we're gonna do it right
Pray to the moon in the middle of the night

Well come on Jack, what do you know?
What have you seen, now where will you go?
Come on boys, I gotta tell you true
I'm a stranger here just like you

I get high as the morning sky
This song I sing will never die
I get as low as a gravel road
In a thousand tongues my story's told

Don't throw in heat like a funeral pyre
We can get along like a house on fire
This world she's cold, this world is mean
My heart is stone, my hands are clean

And they'll say tell us Jack, where will you go?
What have you seen, now what do you know?
Come on boys, we're gonna do it right
You better pray to the moon in the middle of the night
Say come on Jack, what do you know?
What have you seen, now where will you go?
Come on boys, I gotta tell you true
I'm a stranger here just like you

I get high as the morning sky
This song I sing will never die
I get as low as a gravel road
In a thousand tongues my story's told

Watch me roll like an iron wheel
Like a stack of deck when the spirits deal
Time cannot hold me in this cage
I'm cheating death, I jumped the grave

And they'll say tell us Jack, what do you say?
Where will you go, now what does it mean?
Come on boys, you wanna do it right
You better pray to the moon in the middle of the night

Well come on Jack, where will you go?
What have you seen, now what do you know?
Come on boys, I gotta tell you true
I'm a stranger here just like you
I get high as the morning sky
This song I sing will never die
I get as low as a gravel road
In a thousand tongues my story's told