Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band — Petrified Forest

[Verse] Human Bark and beauty-less 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 their heads '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, brother, if no one would play As for your games count me in all that can see Breathe in 'n out hungry today and eat hearty tomorrow Or eat away 'n be eaten some day No flower shall grow where oil shall flow No seed shall sow in salt water If 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