Bound To Be Lyrics - Singles - The Gathering Field

Raised on words like 'Punishment' 

And 'God will get you if you don't do what you're told' 

Nuns turned children into fearful right handed 

Little servants of the Lord 

And then 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?" 

I got a visions forming in my head 

Got keep hearing what the preacher said 

He said this world will be the death of me 

Yes, I know it will, 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 knew where 

And she said, I can see destruction fast approaching 

I feel it in the air, yea, I feel it in the air, yea" 

And I got a 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) 

He said this world will be the death of me 

(I got no one to rely on) 

Yes, I know it will, it's bound to be 

(Except for me) 

On a road in Valparaiso 

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" 

Well she said, 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 as atoms through the sky 

She said, "This world it sure ain't no place to live in 

But it ain't no place to die, no, ain't no place to die, no" 

And I got a 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) 

He said this world will be the death of me 

(I got no one to rely on) 

Yes, I know it will, it's bound to be, yea 

(Except for me) 

Well, I got a 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) 

He said this world will be another death of me 

(I got no one to rely on) 

Yes, and for all of us it's, it's bound to be, yea 

(Except for me) 

It's bound to be, yea 

(See the blood on the horizon) 

Oh, it's bound to be, yea 

(Said, The truth will set you free) 

Alright, alright 

(I got no one to rely on except for me)