Sitting in this frozen box of ice at the north pole To them it was just an experiment, I never knew it would cost my soul To the military, I was their very best, with information I could not share Now they're trying to crack my code and it's more than I can bear I'm a silent saint I'm a saint I'm a silent saint I'm a saint Now I've sailed the seven seas, except for Bengal And I've danced with a Russian queen at a Tel Aviv ball The arctic cold is moving in, my consciousness is fading fast And if they don't come for me soon, this Leslie County boy won't last Still I'm a silent saint I'm a saint I'm a silent saint I'm a saint Kentucky rolls over the bluegrass, fades into my mind The mandolins play louder and I think I'm going blind Oh, Hyden's ringing in my ears and the last words my father said, He said the mines are a slow suicide, oh and now the coal mine is dead The helicopter flies me back to my kith and kin And I know my Ruth will be waiting with open arms to welcome me in Oh but I'm a silent saint I'm a saint I'm a silent saint I'm a silent saint

Unlock the door, take off my shoes Don't embrace me baby, just fill a glass of ice and booze Think I care what happened at school today? You don't teach them nothin', not what they need to know anyway Things don't look different but they sure have changed They didn't break me but I'm not the same Our love is night where once the bright sun shone It's not necessarily good to be back home Distant and resigned my mind is fine If I could just get past that one moment in time Even my own family has lost all care They see me as a drunk with fading mind and thinning hair But in my heart is love from God above This pride in countrymen they know not of Certain things money just cannot buy These emerald mountains and sapphire plated skies Can't stay here this way, gotta talk on the mic It's thirty miles to Hazard - a good long healthy hike I put my shoes back on, button up my coat Gonna tell the people there to get out and vote vote vote Vote Vote Vote for Calvin Akers And then perhaps they'll want to vote for me God willing they'll all come and vote for me People of the bluegrass come and vote for me You know I'm the man for the job

Well I just got back the other day From shores abroad so far away Things aren't as they seem Feels like I'm in a dream So much for this war-torn man Who grips the glass in the palm of his hand As the bourbon melts away Where did I go astray Take me for a ride In the back of your car Parade me around like a big, big star Take me for a ride Make 'em go away I'll put on a smile so I can finish the day Well I jumped from my bed in the middle of the night Grabbed my gun and flipped on the light Sweat was drippin' down But there was no one around Flashes of blood and flashes of light Blinding snow and blinding fright The grass is always greener on the other side And I should thank my god that I'm alive Take me for a ride In the back of your car Parade me around like a big, big star Take me for a ride Make 'em go away I'll put on a smile so I can finish the day Well I guess things really aren't all so bad Some people see me walking and they seem so sad But I know inside that I am blessed And his amazing grace can handle the rest If it weren't for my wife and my best friend Clay I think I'd walk on into my grave Singin' lay them burdens down, boy Lay them burdens down Take me for a ride In the back of your car Parade me around like a big, big star Take me for a ride Make 'em go away I'll put on a smile so I can finish the day

I fell asleep beside a mountain stream I slipped off into a dream Of something that was so serene Aqua Vitae It entered into my veins It entered in through my brains This little liquid I have come to name Aqua Vitae Aqua Vitae wash over me Aqua Vitae wash over me When I awoke I looked around But there was no Aqua to be found Except for this vial at my feet An organic concoction that can't be beat I ran straight home just as fast as I could Tried tellin' everybody in my neighborhood Just two drops and you will find Aqua Vitae will blow your mind Aqua Vitae wash over me Aqua Vitae wash over me Aqua Vitae wash over me Aqua Vitae wash over me No one responded to my offer The phone never rang, nobody even bothered My small supply had run out And I had to do something to appease my doubt I planned a hike back to the stream But when I arrived things weren't as they seemed The creek bed had dried up on all sides And I started to think it was all a lie Just then I tripped over my shoelace I fell back into the space The space of a former place Aqua Vitae I started to sink down In the magic stream that I again had found And I'm not gonna share with anyone around My Aqua Vitae Aqua Vitae wash over me Aqua Vitae wash over me

When I was a young boy I walked down these same roads Barefoot, Kickin' up loose dirt These hollers, hills, and valleys were my home Runnin' past the general store, rollin' down the railroad tracks Jumpin' on the coal cars and never once looking back Chewin' on teaberry, goin' to the fishin' hole Suckin' on horehound, didn't give a thought to growing old Never give up my father told me, stand upright and be strong Let your beliefs not be swayed, don't sell your soul for a song The leaves they may be blown from the big sandy to the bluegrass But my heart will always be here, though my body yet will pass I'm a man, man mountain, a man, man mountain A mountain man, a mountain man I'm a man, man mountain, a man, man mountain A mountain man, a mountain man So I set out to see the cities, the world would yield beneath my feet I've seen enough and now I'm back home, my heart intact, my body beat They shot me down like Gunga Din, but no one came to bring me drink Still I held to my father's words when left dying on the brink You may call me crazy, you may say that I'm a lush But hear you my sharpened tongue and thy lips I'll surely hush You can keep your concrete jungles, save for yourself your orange skies I'll never again leave old Kentucky, here I was born and here I'll die The leaves they may be blown from the big sandy to the bluegrass But my heart will always be here, though my body yet will pass I'm a man, man mountain, a man, man mountain A mountain man, a mountain man I'm a man, man mountain, a man, man mountain A mountain man, a mountain man

Here I am safe Here I am free From the clutches of war And conspiracy Here I can laugh At the bears above They understand structure But they know not love Know not love I am free From atomic energy And I can sleep sound In the holes that I have dug in the ground Let them find me Sleeping peacefully Tomorrow I'll be gone On my train beneath the dawn Beneath the dawn Beneath the dawn My men are building Railroads of steel Far beneath the ice And the American will to survive We stand for justice And the American way In this frozen cocoon A safe place to stay A safe place to stay And we are free From atomic energy And we can sleep sound In the holes that we have dug in the ground Oh let them find me Sleeping peacefully Tomorrow I'll be gone On my train beneath the dawn Beneath the dawn Beneath the dawn We educate the young And protect the old We are as one We will not fall Will not fall And I am free From atomic energy And I can sleep sound In the holes that we have dug in the ground Oh let them find me Sleeping peacefully Tomorrow I'll be gone On my train beneath the dawn Beneath the dawn Come and find me

I'm flying above my thoughts and dreams All of my plans and schemes Down below the ground is racing fast Back through my past And all I have done Comes right up the front You my love hold on For soon I fear I may be gone Love, the time has come to say goodbye Go with God now, baby please don't cry Feel my flesh is fading fast I don't know where I've been cast It's better like this my love Now I can rest above Where I am wanted and well spoken to Just keep your head up high Don't tell no lies And be proud of where you're from Love, the time has come to say goodbye Go with God now, baby please don't cry “Yo vaya con dios”

Alone at the shortwave radio, distressed over what I'd heard Castro's talking to Russia again, over missiles they both had concurred My trembling hands reach for the glass of Maker's Kentucky straight And with a sigh I flipped off the power switch, in my heart I knew it was too late And the blood was all around, but the knife was nowhere found Though the carnival plays on, the man in grey was already gone And that man was me That man was me Walking down this mountain road, I wish my feet could fly I am the grey messenger on a mission, I am the lonely spy Floating clown heads blur my view, shrieking cotton-fatted mouths I have reached the carnival of lost and for me there's two ways out And the blood was all around, but the knife was nowhere found Though the carnival plays on, the man in grey was already gone And that man was me That man was me Tattoo man a moment of your time Hear the words I say The missiles they move upon us And we all must get away Have you gone mad? Or have you merely gone astray? I warn you my friend you put us all in danger if you decide to stay And if I can't convince you of that, then I'll let my knife have it's way And the blood was all around, but the knife was nowhere found Though the carnival plays on, the man in grey was already gone Though the blood was all around, though the knife was nowhere found Though the carnival plays on, the man in grey was already gone And that man was me That man was me

As I look to the east and I face to the west, I think of the people that I loved the best As young mothers know when their babies cry, It's old men know when old men die I gotta roll I ain't got time, I ain't got time, I ain't got time I gotta go Oh, I gotta roll I gotta go I gotta roll I ain't got time to say goodbye I ain't got time to laugh or cry I gotta go I gotta go Well i ain't got time, i ain't got time, i ain't got time I gotta go I gotta roll I gotta roll I gotta go I gotta roll