Sioux Falls

[Verse]
Flying over Sioux Falls
Down there something forms a circle
Must be a stadium wide
Is it spinning counter-clockwise?
Is it a water wheel?
No, see it spins like a mobile
Is it the wind bent down?
No, it is spinning round and round
Is it a fresh-plowed patch?
What on the Earth would spin like that?

[Verse]
As we descend for landing
Do my naked eyes deceive me?
It is women and men
Thousands of them and their children
Spinning like thread around a spool
Circling 'round like a whirlpool
What do they chase and chase?
What is the terror on their face
As the wondrous spell
Trodding upon the ones that fell

[Chorus]
Oh, my eyes!
Do I see my late mother
Caught in the mill whipping around her five children?
Do you see them run?
Do you see Benjamin falling?
Do you hear them hum in dissonance?

[Bridge]
A torch, a Zippo
A pocket knife, whistle
One space blanket and a first aid kit

[Verse]
We touch down on the airport apron
And go to the field where they run
Feels like standing on the edge of a cyclone
As the world picks up and spins like a cyclone
Many more flailing in
Caught by the wind and confusion
Like ants that have lost the scent
Following where their leader went
Caught in a spiral wind
Many collapse from exhaustion
Caught in the spoke of the wheel
Stamped under foot, under hoof, under heel

[Chorus]
Oh, my eyes!
Do I see my late mother
Caught in the mill whipping around her five children?
Do you see them run? Do you see Benjamin falling?
Do you hear them hum in dissonance?

[Bridge]
A torch, a Zippo
A pocket-knife, whistle
One space blanket and a first aid kit
It is Armageddon
Ballet for the madam
But it's not a rainbow
Not a rainbow, but a Greek president

A torch, a Zippo
A pocket-knife, whistle
One space blanket and a first aid kit
It is Armageddon
Ballet for the madam
But it's not a rainbow
Not a rainbow, but a Greek president

A torch, a Zippo
A pocket-knife, whistle
One space blanket and a first aid kit
It is Armageddon
Ballet for the madam
But it's not a rainbow
Not a rainbow, but a Greek president