Well we buried you a saint today

We buried you so clean

Wrapped you up so carefully

In patriotic dreams

Took you to a corner

Of a world you traveled far

Cleaved the ground and lowered you

Into that gloomy dark

Said goodbye forever

Said goodbye for good

Said the things we never said

Somehow we never could

Well we buried you a saint today

Recounted all your deeds

Sixty years you ruled the world

But now you have to leave

Left your footprints scattered

In vastness of desert lands

To those of us that knew you

You’re more than shifting sand.

Said goodbye forever

Said goodbye for good

Said the things we never said

Somehow we never could

We are all just burying saints I think

Saying our goodbyes

To people that we loved so long

Who came into our lives

And I who know the desert

Will find a place to stand

Where silence seems to take control

Where silence rules the land

Said goodbye forever

Said goodbye for good

Said the things we never said

And now I wish we could.