Petrified Forest - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Human bark 'n beautyless hide from beauty

Bow your eyes 'n' heads to the duty of the dead’s suck the ground

Breathe life into the dead dinosaurs

Let the past demons rear up 'n belch fire in the air of now

The rug’s wearing out that we walk on

Soon it will fray 'n' we’ll drop dead into yesterday

Must the breathing pay for those who breathe in 'n' don’t breathe out

There’d be no gain, brothers, if no one would play

'N for your games count me 'n all that can see

Breathe in 'n out hungry today 'n' eat hearty tomorrow

Or eat away 'n be eaten some day

No seed shall sow in salt water

If the dinosaur cries with blood in his eyes

In the dinosaur cries with blood in his eyes

'N eats our babies for our lies

Belches fire in our skies

Maybe I’ll die but he’ll be rumbling through

Your petrified forest