Stretching Wire

[Spoken:] Sounds great Yup You can see him in the blizzard Where night is day and day is night And every footstep disappears Just as soon as he goes by He likes his life this way Moving slow from post to post You might think that he's a ghost But no lo lo he's stretching wire He's always moving forwards Never turning back around Always moving in a straight line To wherever he is now Nothing up above him But the buzzards in the sky And in the ground the girl who loved him So no de lo lo he's stretching wire Ooh... He hears the whippers in the willow He feeds the rattlesnakes by hand Tumbleweeds while he is sleeping Roll by quiet as they can He's not afraid of morning Or the sorrow that it brings He'll stretch the wire till it sings And lo de lo de lo He's stretching wire Ooh...