Tankard Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Mess In The West Lyrics

Out in the west, where the coyotes rest

 Lives Ed on a dusty little ranch

 400 miles from anything that smiles

 Just snakes, tumbleweed,

 and countro tapes

 

 Barrels in an old mine,

 waiting for the right time

 Seepage into waterways and wells

 "Cactus got a red head

 and my chicken all dead,

 I got green spots itchin' me like hell"

 

 [Chorus:]

 High life in the desert wasteland

 There's a big mess in the west

 Dioxin or heavy metal

 It's a big mess in the west

 Dump now you'll be payin' later

 For the big mess in the west

 

 "FUCK Inc., preaches ecology"

 Boss smiles, holding up recycled cup

 But in the night, when evil's out of site

 His waste goes on west and disappears

 

 Meanwhile in the distance,

 Ed is kinda' pissed and

 All his cows are growing funny horns

 Ed is losing his hair,

 and he's full of despair

 "Christ Almighty, everything is wrong!"

 

 [Chorus]

 

 Out in the west, where the coyotes rest

 Lived Ed on a dusty little ranch

 400 miles from anything that smiles

 Just snakes, tumbleweed,

 and country tapes

 

 Ed was taken east

 and noone ever missed him

 Had no kids, no relatives, no wife

 Then he was dissected,

 data were corrected

 But they won't be published on hour life

 

 [Chorus]