Bury My Heart Lyrics - Waterboys

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! 

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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 

>And I pretend no blessed evil soul 

> that I don't hear that thunder start 

Bury my heart! 

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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!