Point Hope

Lyrics

Hey little darling There's something that you should know This thing is gonna outlive us all This thing it won't let us go Gonna take us down to nothing Gonna eat us from the inside out And hey little darling I don't want you feeling the fallout When the cancer finally took him I was watching the trucks pull in Me and your daddy we had a job Under the ground mining uranium Some things your daddy leaves you And there's some things he don't Some things are gonna be here anyhow And some things just won't One thing I want you to understand Is you ain't gotta be no mining man I curse the day that I went down And I pulled that shit out of the ground Now we were living over in nevada That's where your people come from Your grandma would take me and your daddy On down to the gunnery range We'd sit and watch the bombs blow And when the sun goes down All them colors running like the painted desert And you get to see it now Them government boys had something so damn secret They had to hide it in the desert sand Out there the sky's so big And there ain't no mistaking it Who's got the winning hand Now i've been all the way to Alaska To a town they call Point Hope Where they took some of what we got down here Just to see how it would grow I hear the lichen bought it Now it's running through the caribou I said soon little darling Ah you get to feel it too You get to feel it too Ah now soon little darling You get to feel it too You get to feel it too Oh now soon, little darling, you get to feel it too Ah (Feel this) Ah (let me hold you) Ah (heal this land) Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah