Roar - Old Glory Lyrics

Well, we're rolling out west
Where the blacktop kills
With a pack of cigarettes
And a belly full of pills
There's a girl out there
And she's street-fighting
Past the mighty Mississip
And the dry lightning
If you read my hand
Can you read my mind
If you do then you'll know
Why we run and hide
And if you give everything
That's been asked of you
You'll get spit out alone
With sullen mud on your boots

It's said that
Laying down roots
Will get you buried in the dirt
So I want to be
Where there's no trees to remind me
I'll manifest
I'll manifest
My own destiny

Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man
Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man

Now it's all eyes front
As the future dawns
Make ready the intrepid
Or you can't keep up
Yes, you must go forward
Ever-onward
Looking back will only
Break your neck
I'm a diction-impaired lost-boy
From my lungs down to my shoes
Eviscerated
Demonstration of
Walking pale-dog blues

And if I
Really wanted to find myself
I'd have to dig myself six feet down
Push aside the earth
That covers up the reasons
Why I blew this town
To manifest
I'll manifest
My own destiny

Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man
Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man

Give me wide open frontier
Give me blue-field skies
Life in motion-perpetual
Can help to clear my blurry mind
Ease my poor blurry mind

Now it's all back east
In a city called Tomorrow
Where you live sky-high
In the chrome of the hollow
I'll exhaust myself
Of words for you
Saying everything and nothing
But you still see through
And I'd travel any distance
I'd travel many moons
To be by your side
In troubled times
And face this dusk with you
So won't you

Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man
Wrap me
In Old Glory
Wanna be a dust-covered man

And my friend, if we don't make it
It's been an honor and a privilege
To make this stand with you