Medicine Hat


There will be droughts and days inundated
Unveilings free from saturation
Departures raised with no masquerading
There will be teachers that die by their own hand
Pundits that push headlong for atonement
Friends and followers devoted to living
There will be watchers that ply from new confines
And those committed to society's circles
Unwary cogs with no cadence or virtue

There will be right, there will be wrong

(Chorus)
Drop of the hat and it's already started
Just like that and the deed is done
What I'd give for the hat to be medicine
The time is now to be on the run

There will be machinations unforseen
Sleepwalking sense from a bad dream
No promenade walk in the parkway
There will catchwords filled with infection
Circulars to prop up occasion
A golden mean to guide the footsteps
There will be levels on high hills that appraise
There will be unchanging certainties
Barometers that follow the stampede 

There will be right, there will be wrong

(Chorus)

There will be singposts of indication
Semaphore ghost signs and warnings
Hailstone halos and country blues wailings
There will be strains that break out of straight time
Paved with grace different roads to the same place
No consequence to repay what's been given
There will be layers of means to an end
Drawn out days before resolution
Dregs will rain down from all directions

There will be right, there will be wrong

(Chorus)