On the eve of the last night in Baton Rouge
 On my ship full of soldiers, battered and [bad word]  Well the flames grew high
 And the bullets, they flew
 And my brother cried out "Momma save me if you will"
 We went down down down to the mouth of the sea
 and she opened right up and she called out to me
 For a spell my dear
 listen hard, listen clear
 this ain't no story of love songs or women or fear
 There's no time to waste and I can't stay long
 For the gods up above have a plan to cast off
 All the burdens of man and the last of the sin
 That has plagued all the land, made it rotten and grim
 So my son, my son, salvation lay ahead
 But the sun will surely rise when we're dead
 So hallelujah, the lord's [bad word] live?
 Salvation is a bullet in my head
 The wise man say don't mind if ?she had live?
 The sun will surely rise when we're dead

 So the lady of the sea, she spit me up and let me be
 On conditions that I tell every man and every tree
 Of the ?rife? was [bad word] and the death that was to be
 If we'd only pray to god spare us please spare us please
 So I swam to the shore and I gathered my feet
 And I grabbed the first child that my eyes did see
 And I screamed at the boy "You must be strong, do not be weak
 For the time approaches now, even strong men are meek
 And all the wars that we fight, they are false and they aren't right
 [bad word] not to what will be in our sight
 For the rocks will cry out "We were right, we were right"
 And the mountains will crash in the black of the night
 And the stallions will ride, and the sky will split in two
 And the beasts will devour the city of fools
 So my son, my son, salvation lay ahead
 But the sun will surely rise when you're dead
 So hallelujah, the lord's [bad word] live?
 Salvation is a bullet in my head
 The wise man say don't mind if ?she won't live?
 The sun will surely rise when we're dead

 So the boy took his fear to the head of the state
 And the leaders of the towns they all gathered and prayed
 They sang songs to the lord
 "Make us right, just make us free"
 And please bless us with weapons to kill all these things
 That you hate so much 
 ??Need you white ball is clean???
 Give us money, give us power, give us everything
 And we'll rise, rise, rise to the top of the sea
 And we'll both cash out and we'll [bad word] out clean
 But the man in the towns could not understand
 All the damage was done, there was nothing they could mend
 So they took to their homes and they danced one last dance
 With their wives on their arms as the children did ask
 "Daddy, what is [bad word] of this life that we live?"
 "Baby close your pretty eyes, you've got too much love to give"
 And I did all that I could to be spared of this ?fire?
 Spread the word of the lord, gave up worldly desires
 But the lady of the sea could not save me from me
 And the mouth of the ocean swallowed everything
 And the rocks cried out "We were right, we were right"
 And the mountains did crash in the black of the night
 And the stallions did ride, the sky split in two
 And the beasts all devoured the cities of fools
 So my brothers, my sisters, salvation lay ahead
 But the sun will surely rise when we're dead
 So hallelujah, the lord's [bad word] live?
 Salvation is a bullet in my head
 The wise man say don't mind if ?she won't live?
 The sun will surely rise when we're dead
 The sun will surely rise when we're dead
 The sun will surely rise when we're dead