These United States - So High So Low So Wide So Long lyrics

So long sad But at least it's sure said the old man Well i believe it's the sweetest two words I have ever heard And i've been around Since God made dirt And said i could dig it or man i could buy it But there's no way possible that i can deny it Indisputable science I ran alone from the hungry lions And now i'm so high i can't get over it With my heart so low i can't get under it And the sky so wide i'll never get around it And so i'm yelling into nothing just to hear The echo of the sound of it I need to get some new ground into my feet I spent all the precious metals that i dug from The streets Oh little song all thats left of me My gold is gone but i've got the receipts And i'm gonna read them from the mountaintop Talk tales of busted bandits Cobweb corner shops And each one patrols (?) a pot of gold Tooth broke Like sisyphus at the hillside tollboth I feel for jonah I too am a lonely butcher Trying to carve a lil piece out of this whale's great big future and still I'm just as high but i can't get over it With my heart so low i can't get under it And the sky so wide i'll never get around it And so yelling into the nothing just to hear the echo of the sound of the rock So heavy You can barely even move it And this life's so thick that You can hardly swim on through it And flames so fast You gotta go on sitting in it Just as long as you know You must get on with it I feel for jonah I too am a lonely butcher.