The New Wild West-Jewel

[ti:New Wild West (Album Version)] [ar:Jewel] [al:This Way] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The New Wild West - Jewel (珠儿) [00:17.07]You see the ghosts of the buffalo [00:19.14]Moving both fierce and slow [00:21.89]Like glittering prophesies [00:23.33] [00:24.82]On the edge of the horizon [00:26.60] [00:29.48]As you drive glittering highways [00:32.10]And beaten-up by-ways [00:34.23]That straddle and girdle [00:36.28]A great and many-faced nation [00:39.09] [00:42.22]There are lambs in the ghettos [00:44.82]Who worship their Gapettos [00:46.85]Believing in though never seeing [00:49.15]The strings they think bind them [00:52.40] [00:54.90]So you write to our congressmen [00:57.74]With bleeding pens [00:59.64]Of the sorrow within [01:01.39]And in return they just send [01:03.39] [01:03.97]Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show [01:06.97] [01:10.58]Welcome to the new wild west [01:15.14] [01:19.93]Each man for himself [01:23.68] [01:28.34]Civilized steeples [01:30.12] [01:31.42]And lonely people [01:33.95] [01:35.93]Welcome to the new wild west [01:40.50] [01:43.83]There are so many fractions [01:45.63] [01:46.23]And cue-card reactions [01:48.18]It's hard to keep clear [01:50.51]The possibilities here [01:52.22]'Cause there's no force to unite them [01:55.98] [01:59.17]Privilege has ruled for thousands of years [02:02.72] [02:03.43]Wars have been fought with bibles and tears [02:07.14]Yet liberation can't deny the temptation [02:09.46] [02:10.12]And soon becomes the oppressor [02:11.94] [02:16.26]Show me a leader who's fit to lead [02:20.26]Who don't sew his seed in anything [02:22.71]Wounded enough to breed [02:24.75]Because after all what fun is power [02:26.76]If you can't act like a rock star [02:29.58] [02:33.37]Welcome to the new wild west [02:37.70] [02:42.59]Each man for himself [02:46.78] [02:51.23]Civilized steeples [02:52.78] [02:53.86]And lonely people [02:56.87] [02:58.63]Welcome to the new [03:00.66] [03:21.76]I've been petty and unkind [03:25.83]But I know my own mind [03:27.64]And since it seems clear [03:29.86]There's no one leading us here [03:31.72]The only thing left it appears [03:33.70]Is to task ourselves to be better each time [03:37.87]Then those before us [03:39.17] [03:40.67]We'll be an army of theives [03:41.86] [03:43.02]Of self-freed slaves [03:44.40] [03:45.05]Of mild-mannered maids [03:46.65]We'll fight with whispers and blades [03:48.76]So get ready a new day is dawning [03:54.10] [03:57.43]Welcome to the new wild west [04:02.48] [04:07.61]Each man for himself [04:12.35] [04:15.66]A nation of civilized steeples [04:18.39]And lonely people [04:21.72] [04:23.40]Welcome to the new wild west