Found a mockingbird and I drowned it It never said a word to anybody but now So I wear this cross and chain cause my girl found it Said it'd drive my pain all the way clean out of town We looked out on the broken world and like Old Edmund Ruffin declared we'd started something Can the bell and tower hold your pa**ion?
Toll it out in hours straight to the end of your days? We lit the fuse and walked away Then like Old Edmund Ruffin, said "we started something" Ah the great release, thought I'd found it But there can be no peace 'Til every idol comes down