[Verse 1] There was a man who used to live by the ocean But he never set foot in the sea It made him nervous that the water was always in motion And he feared the creatures who swam beneath
And when I asked him how he'd ended up there Above a world he would never know He said he'd driven all the way across America And when he got to thе edge therе was nowhere left to go [Chorus] Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go Nowhere left to go
[Verse 2] He said that nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains As he quoted Black Kettle's death song The words drifting off into the emptiness