[STORYTELLERS] And the man walked through the acrid ash of heaven To the smoldering tree destroyed by Father's wrath And he carved from it a staff To lean on in the aftermath And the man and woman went out from the garden And when they turned to look, the pathway back was gone So they turned and set their eyes To the land that lies beyond Red rock and outcrop stone And the sun glares off a bleaching bone There's no comfort or softness here There's only the wasteland The land of the hunter, the stalker, and the skinner Where you're either the diner or the dinner And the line between man and beast keeps getting thinner
In the wasteland In the wasteland, the land laid waste Fruit of knowledge has a bitter taste But the bliss of ignorance can never be replaced It's lost in the wilderness And there came a day, in a chilly rain A child was born in sweat and pain But they loved him still and they called him Cain Of the wasteland In the wasteland, the land forlorn Two more years and one more morning There's another cry heard and another boy born To be lost in the wilderness Heat-baked and dust storm-driven And one false step stays unforgiven And all that you know is you weren't made to live in The wasteland