Lyrics

Who are these gods of wood and stone?
Why, oh why won't they leave us alone?
Haunted by demons of copper and gold
How did we let them get so bold?

Who are these kings of power and sin?
Whose lies snake around and never begin?
I've battled These tyrants in wartime and peace
Where does one start and the other one cease?

I spent forty days fighting as the desert sun shone
Man, I'm done with the whole scene
I'd rather go it alone

Forty more days and forty more nights
Out on my own to get my head right
There's no going back that way
The walls have fallen and the well's in decay
Forty more days and forty more nights

What of the children of flesh and bone?
Destiny's prophets are they alone?
The children, the children of skin and blood
who dance in the rain and sing in the mud

I thought I did what I had to, as the clouds split the light
Now at the base of the rainbow, it don't seem so black and white.

Forty more days and forty more nights
Out on my own to get my head right
There's no going back that way, the olives are rotten and the dove's flown away
Forty more days and forty more nights

I've been trying for so long
Forty years of tending the vine
Now it's time to take comfort
In my own flagon of wine

Forty more days and forty more nights
Out on my own to get my head right
There's no going back that way
Every side's losing and I'm leaving the fray
Forty more days and forty more nights