Bound to Be Songtext
von Gathering Field

Raised on words like punishment
And God will get you if you don′t do what you're told
Nuns turn children into fearful right-
Handed little servants of the Lord
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?"

′Cause I got visions forming in my head
And I 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 up and 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, yeah
I feel it in the air, yeah"

And I got visions forming in my head
And I 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

On the 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"
Yeah
She said, "It's gone"


Can′t you see the writing on the blood-soaked blue horizon
Plain as B.J. 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
And she said, "This world, it sure ain't no place to live
But it ain't no place to die, no
Ain′t no place to die, no"

And I got visions forming in my head
And I 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

Well, I got visions forming in my head
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
He said this world will be the death of me

Yes, and for all of us, it's, it′s bound to be, yeah
It's bound to be, yeah
Oh, it′s bound to be, yeah
Oh, alright, alright