Indigo Girls Point Hope song lyrics

Hey little darling

There's something that you should know

This thing is gonna hound every soul

This thing it won't let us go

Gonna take us down to nothing

Gonna eat us from the inside out

And hey, little darling

I don't want you feeling the fallout

When the cancer finally took him

I was watching the trucks pull in

Me and your daddy, we had a job under the ground, mining uranium

Some things your daddy leaves you, there's

Some things he don't

Some things are gonna be here anyhow and

Some things just wont

One thing I want you to understand is

you ain't gotta be no mining man

I curse the day that I went down and I

Pulled that shit out of the ground

Now we were living over in Nevada

That's where your people come from

Your grandma would take me and your daddy on down to the gunnery range

We sit and watch the bombs blow and when the sun goes down

All the colors runnin like the Painted Desert and you get to see it now

Them government boys had something so damn secret they had to hide it in the desert sand

Out there the sky's so big and there ain't no mistaking it, who's got the winning hand?

Now I've been all the way to Alaska

To a town they call Point Hope

Where they took some of what we got down here

just to see how it would grow

I hear the lichen bought it, now it's running thru the caribou

I said, soon, little darling

ah, you'll get to feel it too