[Chorus]

By the dried up stream

We slit our throats and dreamed

When the buildings burned

Was it some concern?

Mother laid in bed

What was it she said?

[Verse]

Gather all your worldly jewels

And scatter them like fools

Don't you make a fuss

Days so perilous

When day is done we'll ride

Who cares what we find?

Another misspent night

We thought we got it right

The driver lost a wheel

The ice turned into steel

They shivered like refugees

Way down on our knees

[Chorus]

By the dried up stream

We slit our throats and dreamed

When the buildings burned

Was it some concern?

Mother laid in bed

What was it she said?