Been to the Mountain

I got nothing to prove
I got nothing to sell
I'm not buying what you've got
I ain't ringing no bells

I got a mint in my pocket
Got a bullet in my teeth
I'm going straight in the fire
I'm gonna talk to the high priest

Used to be a lover
Queen and a drifter
A cowboy devil
A bride in a box

A pilgrim and a thief
But it was me underneath
I just know who I'm not
And that's alright with me, alright
Alright

Can't tell me nothing, baby
And that's a fact
I have been to the mountain and back
Alright

Well, I wish I was God
But I'm glad that I'm not
'Cause I think too much
Got my head in a knot

World's on fire
Better save your brother
I've been a child
And I've been a mother

I've been a victim
And I've been a tumor
Used to be a waitress
But now I'm a consumer

I've been on food stamps
I've been out of my mind
I'm rolled in dirty dollars
Stood in the welfare line

I've been a number
I've been under attack
I have been to the mountain and back
Alright
Alright

I've been a dancer
A saint, an assassin
I've been a nobody
A trucker driver shaman

So many seasons
That I've been adrift
Sometimes I wonder
If I even exist

Do you ever walk down the street
And do you think to yourself
"Am I being watched, man?
Am I on the list?"

Well, I've been called
Every name in the book, honey
Go on, take your best shot
Take your best shot, take your best shot
I got my back to remind me

Aim in my heart
Go on, take your best shot, now
I am a hunter and I am the hunted
I am a baby, I'm wanted

I'm alchemist, teacher
I'm a sinner, I'm a preacher
And I know that there's more here than this
As I stare in the void of the black mountain vacuum

I know the scent
Of death like a perfume
No, this ain't the end
This ain't the end, this ain't the end, this ain't the end

Ooh, take off your tired eyes
Undress your goodbyes, 'cause
I have been to the mountain
I have been to the mountain
I have been to the mountain
I have been to the mountain and back, alright

Alright

Can't tell me nothing, baby
And that's a fact
I have been to the mountain and back
Alright

Alright
Alright