Bound to be

Raised on words like punishment
And God'll get you
If you don't do what you're told
And nuns turn children into tearful
Right-handed little servants servants of the Lord
And the atom bomb fell down on Hiroshima, North Dakota
The year she turned sixteen
And she said there is something
Very wrong here...
Do you know what I mean
Do you know what I mean

And I got visions forming in my head
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
Said this world will be the death of me
Yeah, I know it is it's bound to be
It's bound to be...

Satchel full of broken hopes and empty
Picture postcards that she'd never send
Her Mama sitting on the front porch step
Daddy frowning in the darkened doorway waving
His regret
And she was jumping on the Santa Fe
Summer night in 1947
Bound for God knows where
And she said I can see destruction fast approaching...
I feel it in the air, I feel it in the air...

And I got visions forming in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said the truth will set you free)
Yeah this world will be the death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yeah, I know it is it's bound to be
(Except for me)...
It's bound to be...

And on a road to Valpariso, she met a hobo named Old John...
They hunkered down in a gazebo
And chose a star to gaze upon
Old John said he could see her slipping
And he asked her what was wrong...
She said the rope I had been gripping
Turned to sand and now it's gone
It's gone...
It's gone...

Can't you see the writing on the
Blood soaked blue horizon
Plain as VJ day
Hear the barking of the drowning dogs
Frozen like so many Eisenhower
Statues in Pompeii
I think I'll take another taste Old John
To numb my heart, God knows I'm falling fast like
Atoms through the sky
And she said this world it sure ain't no place to live in
But it ain't no place to die
It ain't no place to die...

And I got visions forming in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said the truth will set you free)
I know this world will be the death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yeah, I know it is it's bound to be
(Except for me)...
It's bound to be...

And I got visions running in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said the truth will set you free)
Said this world will be the death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yeah, I know it is it's bound to be
(Except for me)...
It's bound to be...
It's bound to be...

See the blood on the horizon...
it's bound to be
Said the truth will set you free...
Lord, it's bound to be
I got no one to rely on...
Oh, it's bound to be
Except for me...
Except for me...