Sweet Bird of Truth (12" Version Edit)

Heaven sent and hell bent!

Over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other GI Joes

EE-AY-EE-AY----adios!

Arabia (repeated)

6 o′clock in the morning & i'm the last person in this plane

Still awake

Y′know I can almost smell the blood washing against the shores

Of this land that can't forget its past

Oh the wind that carries this plane, is the wind of change

Heaven sent and hell bent!

Over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other GI Joes

EE-AY-EE-AY----adios!

(chanting)

Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains

All the money I've made--bodies I′ve maimed

Time was when I seemed to know

Just like any other GI Joe

Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man

While the planet's little wars start joining hands

Oh what a heaven, what a hell!

Y'know there′s nothing can be done in the whole wide world

CHORUS

This is your captain calling "with an urgent warning"

We're above the Gulf of Arabia "our altitude is falling"

And I can′t hold her up "there′s no time for thinking"

All hands on deck "this bird is sinking"

Arabia (repeated)

I don't know whats wrong or right

I′m just a regular guy, with bottled up insides

I ain't ever been to church or believed in

Jesus Christ

But I'm praying that God's with you when you die! Die Die Die!

CHORUS

This is your captain calling (calling) "with an urgent warning"

We're above the Gulf of Arabia (Arabia) "our altitude is falling"

And I can′t hold her up (hold her up) "there′s no time for thinking"

All hands on deck (on deck) "this bird is sinking"

This is your captain calling (calling) "with an urgent warning"

We're above the Gulf of Arabia (Arabia) "our altitude is falling"

And I can′t hold her up (hold her up) "there′s no time for thinking"

All hands on deck (on deck) "this bird is sinking"