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...