[Verse 1]

Well, I'm alive like a sprouting seed

Like the deepest roots of an ancient tree

I did not come here for the bread

No, I have come to wake the dead

[Pre-Chorus 1]

And they'll say, "Tell us, Jack, what have you seen?

Where will you go now, what does it mean?"

Come on boys, you've got to do it right

Pray to the moon in the middle of the night

"Well, come on Jack, what do you know?

What have you seen now, where will you go?"

Come on boys, I've got to tell you true

I'm a stranger here just like you

[Chorus]

I get high as the morning sky

This song I sing will never die

I get low as a gravel road

In a thousand tongues my story's told

[Verse 2]

I'm throwing heat like a funeral pyre

We can get along like a house on fire

This world, she's cold, this world is mean

My heart is stone, my hands are clean

[Pre-Chorus 2]

And they'll say, "Tell us Jack, where will you go?

What have you seen now, what do you know?"

I said, come on boys, you've got to do it right

You'd better pray to the moon in the middle of the night

Say, "Come on Jack, what do you know?

Where have you seen now, where will you go?"

Come on boys, I've got to tell you true

I'm a stranger here just like you

[Chorus]

I get high as the morning sky

This song I sing will never die

I get low as a gravel road

In a thousand tongues my story's told

[Verse 3]

Watch me roll like an iron wheel

I can stack the deck when the spirits deal

Time cannot hold me in this cage

I'm cheating death, I jump the grave

[Pre-Chorus 3]

And they'll say, "Tell us, Jack, what have you seen?

Where will you go now, what does it mean?"

Come on boys, you've got to do it right

You'd better pray to the moon in the middle of the night

"Well, come on Jack, what do you know?

What have you seen now, what do you know?"

I said, come on boys, I've got to tell you true

I'm a stranger here just like you

[Chorus]

I get high as the morning sky

This song I sing will never die

I get low as a gravel road

In a thousand tongues my story's told