Homeland

Well, I jumped so high
 Knocked the table over
 Thought I saw a ghost
 Come out of the clover
 She lived in this house
 Forty odd years or so
 She was buried in the back
 With the English and the natives
 Slaughtered like sheep
 Women and babies
 Lot of blood and tears
 Three hundred years ago
 It's like they're caught up in the trees
 In the webs of spiders
 Spun out of leaves
 Ghostly riders
 Lookin' for a trail
 To find their way back home
 But there's nothing back there
 Or tomorrow
 No place they
 Can put their sorrow
 Heavy as death
 Cold as a broken stone
 And I call this place my homeland
 And I claim this land I own
 But it belongs to another people
 They possess it in their bones
 Well, I can hear them in the night
 Like a hundred televisions
 Hummin' down low
 Beneath the subdivisions
 All they really want
 Is if we can hear 'em now
 They been troublin' this plain
 Lookin' for attention
 Making crazy tracks
 They need an intervention
 All they really want
 Is to get back home somehow
 So build up a fire
 Say a little prayer
 And cook a little meat
 Pull 'em up a chair
 And offer them a plate
 Maybe we can all find peace
 You can't bury anything
 Men or nations
 Old memories, old vibrations
 The pain doesn't stop
 Just because the killin' ceased
 And I call this place my homeland
 And I claim this land I own
 It belongs to another people
 They possess it in their bones
 Well, I jumped so high
 Straight up off the bed sheet
 Nightmare sky
 Bloody with the red heat
 Started to shake
 'Cause I couldn't find my way back home
 Well, I landed in the ditch
 Landed in the gutter
 Landed in the arms
 Of my long lost mother
 Cryin' like a child
 While the Bayou Pierre groaned
 And I call this place my homeland
 And I love this land I own
 But it belongs to another people
 They possess it in their bones
 Yeah, I call this place my homeland
 And I claim this land I own
 But it belongs to another people
 They possess it in their bones