You Don’t Hear No Drums

[JESSE]
Got no place to go

You don't hear no drums, woman
Woman, you don't hear no drums
All you hear
The clattering of broken bones and homes

[JESSE & MEN]
I think you better ride this wave on out, huh!

[JESSE]
Stop your whining, common girl
Us sold us to this damn world
All you hear
Is echoes of dead voices' final screams

[JESSE & MEN]
I think you better ride this wave on out, huh!

[JESSE]
I'm a prince, my heart is stone
Could not count the slaves I own
All you hear
The mocking cry of past accomplishments

[JESSE & MEN]
I think you better ride this wave on out, huh!

[JESSE]
Woman, don't you beg me for no touch
Common girl, don't ask me for no love
Low born woman
Hear me sayin'
Woman, you don't hear no drum

Death bound river of blood flow
Reeking foul, stench down low
All you hear
The shrieking howls of so much misery

[JESSE & MEN]
I think you better ride this wave on out, huh!

[JESSE]
Agony watch over me
Chained to scum on troubled sea
All you hear
The splashing of your head against hard wood

[JESSE & MEN]
I think you better ride this wave on out, huh!

[JESSE]
Hear me once more, common girl
In rage piss I on the world
All you hear
Is gasping silence of people choking

So I'm gonna be
Flyin' high, flyin' high
Only I, me and mine
I've got to get out, got to be way far away—free

Flyin' high, flyin' high
Only I, me and mine
I've got to get out, got to be way far away—free

You don't hear no drums, woman!
I think you better ride this wave on out