Lyric discussion by dagwood 

Cover art for Waco lyrics by Mountain Goats, The

The lyrics in the boot Ive got are quite a bit different, but thats normal for John. My attempt at them:

Where the dry dust turns the sunset pink where all summer long its so hot you cant think straight where we drink water from a well by hand half a world away from the old promised land we understand what we've been given a new covanent, a real sharp one and we spend our days and nights gaining new appreciation of its finer points waiting for the dead to rise up from their graves waiting for jesus to come along and save us and biding our time biding our time biding our time as best we know how

Second verse is much the same, but its George Romero, not O'mera. He's the god of end-of-world zombie movies (Night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, land of the dead, etc. etc.)