You see the ghosts of the buffalo
    Moving both fierce and slow
    Like glittering prophesies
    On the edge of the horizon
    
    As you drive glittering highways
    And beaten-up by-ways
    That straddle and girdle
    A great and many-faced nation
    
    There are lambs in the ghettos
    Who worship their Gapettos
    Believing in, though never seeing
    The strings they think bind them
    
    So you write to our congressmen
    With bleeding pens
    Of the sorrow within
    And in return they just send
    Tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show
    
    [CHORUS:]
    Welcome to the new wild west
    Each man for himself
    A nation of civilized steeples
    And lonely people
    Welcome to the new wild west
    
    There are so many fractions
    And cue-card reactions
    It's hard to keep clear
    The possibilities here
    'Cause there's no force to unite them
    
    Privilege has ruled for thousands of years
    Wars have been fought with bibles and tears
    Yet liberation can't deny the temptation
    And soon becomes the oppressor
    
    Show me a leader who's fit to lead
    Who don't sew his seed in anything
    Wounded enough to breed
    Because after all what fun is power
    If you can't act like a rock star?
    
    [CHORUS]
    
    See me, I've been cruel
    I've been petty and unkind
    But I know my own mind
    And since it seems clear
    There's no one leading us here
    The only thing left it appears
    Is to task ourselves to be better each time
    Then those before us
    
    We'll be an army of theives
    Of self-freed slaves
    Of mild-mannered maids
    We'll fight with whispers and blades
    So get ready, a new day is dawning
    
    [CHORUS]