These black eyed dandelions Have a taste for sweet Never sharing with the dogs Some are born to vanity They see six but I see three Who keeps marking on my walls? Forever is an August choked with dirty weeds Dreaming some foggy dawn Sometimes you leave the sunshine And sometimes it leaves you Just a reaction to the cold Now the brambles have all gone dry Burnt and blackened by the sun Into this darkling away let's fly Badlands here we come Badlands, Badlands here we come There's words you say in bedrooms Words you say when lost a sea What will your truth become And if my words were daggers There'd be nothing to repeat Just a cop telling people "move along" Now the brambles have all gone dry Burnt and blackened by the sun Into this darkling away let's fly Badlands here we come Badlands, Badlands here we come Another jewel in the outlaws crown Another weary memory Something wicked has rolled into town New rope swinging in the breeze In the space between black and sky In this hollows purple eve Behind a screen door bids goodbye Incantations to believe The coward counts his money In the back room of his soul A dirty end to a darker need The singer can't stop cry'n Though he never stops his song Sing along, sing along Sing along, sing along