Raisins

Raisins (F. Pier) Let us fly the flags they're pretty in the sky Let us wash our clothes and hang them out to dry We drove through the night and this is what we found Let us build a fire and watch the snow fall down And I'll get drunk and I'll go home And say my prayers and sleep alone And set a bottle by the light In case I wake up thirsty In the middle of the night I'm younger than I'll be but I'm older than I was And I know God smiles on us at least I hope he does We built heaven's door out of the indigenous wood So let's start knocking or charge admission Whichever does the most good And I'll get drunk and I'll go home And say my prayers and sleep alone And hope my blankets keep me warm Cuz nobody is Gonna do their job for them The fire and flags The kingdom come The harvest time The prairie sun The idle hours The wasteful pride The grapes of wrath Have shrivelled up and died I followed that river form the mountains of Jasper To Saskatchewan's fruited plains I'm headed out straight to hell or the hills of Drumheller Whichever comes first or again Last night we drank Drummond Draft and traded tales of yore I stayed at a friend's and left at five a.m. You won't see me around anymore And I'll get drunk and I'll go home And say my prayers and sleep alone And wonder what kind of shape they're in Where they're no longer safe From what might have been And I'll get drunk and I'll go home And say my prayers and sleep alone And set a bottle by the light In case I wake up thirsty In the middle of the night