Great Burning

(Hmmmm) (Hmmmm) My feet

are heavy

on the

Texas clay (Heavy on the clay)

I walked the banks where the Ten Mile flows Under stars as

sharp as a diamond's edge

One by one they hung in the dark Each a witness to

the path I tread DeSoto soil beneath my nails Waiting for the

rain to break the drouth But the North wind called with a

iron tongue And I turned my back upon the South

Oh the great burning is rising up (Rising up)

Not a single star but a field of fire

The city stands like a white-hot wall Lifting its head for the

world to admire It is a mountain built by many hands It

is a sun that never goes down

I reached the edge where the stone begins Tall as the timber

on a river bend The sky was white with a thousand lamps

Drowning the night where the borders end It ain't the moon and

it ain't the dawn It's the work of

men in the canyon streets A billion pulses in a single heart

Rumbling low

beneath my feet

Step by step (Step by step) Stone by stone (Stone by stone)

No man walks this road alone I see the fire (I see

the fire) I feel the heat (I feel the heat) The silver

road is beneath my feet

Oh the great burning is rising up

(Rising up) Not a single star but a field of fire

The city stands like a white-hot wall Lifting its head for the

world to admire It is a mountain built by many hands

It is a sun

that never goes down

The sun

that never goes down

(Never goes down) The sun that never goes down (Never goes down)

The great

burning (Hmmmm)