Oh, I was sent to find the lonesome place 
 Where I was lost but left to trace 
 By carving riddles on the lonesome vine 
    Oh, but rumor has it that I wasn't born 
 I just walked in one frosty morn 
 Into the vision of some vacant mind   
 Oh, once I held a pony by its flagging mane 
 And once I called the shadow in the turning game 
 But I will fight this stranger that you should fear 
 So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear   
 Oh, the savior's on the border of the sun 
 Swings on the chambers of your guns 
 And tries to shoot the chord and light the path   
 Oh, but hell, I'm just a blind man on the plains 
 I drink my water when it rains 
 And live by chance among the lightning strikes   
 Oh, once I held a glacier to an open flame 
 And once I felt like wildcat in the fallen game 
 But I will fight this stranger that you should fear 
 So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear   
 Oh, the singer's on the edge to feed the canyon's mouth 
 They will go on forever til they sing you out of time 
 But I will fight this stranger that you should fear 
 So I won't be a burden of tomorrow dear