Bound To Be Lyrics - The Gathering Field

Bound To Be
Raised on words like "punishment" and "God will get you
If you don't do what you're told."Nuns turned children into fearful righthanded littleServants of the LordAnd then the atom bomb fell down on Hiroshima, North DakotaThe year she turned sixteenAnd she said, "There is something very wrong here.Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean?'Cause I got visions forming in my headAnd I keep hearing what the preacher saidSaid this world will be the death of meI know it will, it's bound to beBound to be"Satchel full of broken hopes and empty picture postcardsThat she'd never sendHer mama sitting on the front porch stepDaddy frowning in the darkened doorway, waving his regretThen she was jumping on the Santa Fe, summer night in 1947Bound for God knew whereAnd 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)Said this world will be the death of me(I got no one to rely on)I know it will, it's bound to be."(Except for me...)On a road in Valparaiso, she met a hobo named Old JohnThey hunkered down in a gazebo, and chose a star to gaze uponOld John said he could see her slipping, and he asked her what was wrongShe said, "The rope I had been gripping turned to sandAnd now it's gone, now it's gone.Can't you see the writing on the blood soaked blue horizonPlain as VJ day. Hear the barking of theDrowning dogs, frozen like so many EisenhowerStatues in Pompei. I think I'll take another tasteOld John, to numb my heart, God knows I'm falling fast asAtoms through the sky." She said,"This world it sure ain't no place to live inBut it ain't no place to die. No it ain't no place to die..."