Bury My Heart

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The Waterboys

The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England. Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York, and Findhorn have all served as homes for the group. The band has played in a number of different styles, but their music is a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll. After ten years of recording and touring, they dissolved in 1993 and Scott pursued a solo career. They reformed in 2000, and continue to release albums and tour worldwide. Scott emphasizes a continuity between The Waterboys and his solo work, saying that "To me there's no difference between Mike Scott and the Waterboys; they both mean the same thing. They mean myself and whoever… more »

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1994

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Bury my soul
 where the dust meets the sea
Turn it loose in a lonely place
 where man can still be free
Make up my clothes and sheets
 in a ball, put them in the ground
Tell my children only truths
 teach them to be proud
Tell them dreams and miracles
 when thy thunder stops
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
I was born a travelling trooper
 but I laid my wings to rest
Once I beat myself in squallor
 now I feather up my nest
There are flags in my back yard
 colours on my wall
I pay my servant well
 but I made the bastard crawl
 that I don't hear that thunder start
Bury my heart!
There's a lily in the valley
 where I brought the news to Ro
I offered him my visions but
 the heathen rose to go
So I took my shining sabre and I slew
 my sinning friend
A christian burial was all he needed
 to make him whole again
And I looked up way above me
 and God rent the sky apart
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
We're God's chosen people
 this and other truths I know
Put them into vicious practice
 because the bible tells me so
And I drowned the noble savage
 in the blessed holy water
I burned his filthy village
 and I civilized his daughter
The liars in this world
 who say we shame the blood of Christ
But killing is his mercy
 and nits grow into lice
And all those gooks I napalmed
 man, I did it in God's name
When the fools put me on trial I shouted out
 I'm not to blame -- I did it for him!
I did it for him!
I did it for him!
He made do it!
He tore the heavens apart
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
Bury my heart!
Now I'm going to wilderness
 on a horse that I can trust
I will die where I fall
 in the hot dry dust
And if you come to that place
 remember this truth
That he who's born to property
 is he who's born to lose
Will you bury my soul
 where the dust meets the sea
Will you bury my heart
 at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
 at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart
 at Wounded Knee!
Bury my heart!

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