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"Bullet the Blue Sky"

from The Joshua Tree

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain / See it driving nails into souls on the tree of pain / From the firefly, a red orange glow / See the face of fear running scared in the valley below

Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue

In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum / Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome / Plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire / See them burning crosses, see the flames, higher and higher

Bullet the blue sky / Bullet the blue

Suit and tie comes up to me / His face red / Like a rose on a thorn bush / like all the colours of a royal flush / And he's peeling off those dollar bills / (Slapping them down), one hundred, two hundred, / And I can see the fighter planes / And I can see the fighter planes / Across the mud huts as the children sleep / Through the alleys of a quiet city street / Up the staircase to the first floor / We turn the key and slowly unlock the door / A man breathes deep into his saxophone / Through the walls we hear the city groan / Outside is America / Outside is America