The Pioneers

[Verse 1] If the pioneers on the frontier woke up And heard the voice of a savage with a modern tongue And sang the sorrows Said "You got it all wrong" Their heads'd get checked out by the boots on the ground [Verse 2] When the soundtrack stopped and the dawn did break And the rope-a-dopes on the radio would turn it all fake When the heels fell slow through the floors of hell The flame went cold and it filled with gold [Chorus] All the pioneers on the frontier Gotta get home 'fore the light Gotta sleep well in the night Oh All the pioneers on the frontier Gotta get home 'fore the light Gotta sleep well in the night [Verse 3] As the undercurrents switched like a carver's knife When the here and now turned to parasite When the rock fell slow through the floors of gold And the flaming gold burned so cold [Chorus] All the pioneers on the frontier Gotta get home 'fore the light Gotta sleep well in the night Oh All the pioneers on the frontier Gotta get home 'fore the light Gotta sleep well in the night [Verse 4] When the iron of the times turned to basket case When the black-and-white walls shifted back to gray When the downtrodden picked themselves back up And ran wild like the rivers of the West untamed