Tumble tumbleweed at breakneck speed Tumble tumbleweed at breakneck speed Well the windmills are spinning To no avail Cause in this here county The rain is more precious than gold And some folk are praying And others have sold their souls But nature's indifferent It's beyond god's control Tumble tumbleweed at breakneck speed Tumble tumbleweed at breakneck speed The pills and the powders The cord and the blood And the doctors can't save her Now a minister has come Well, the first born's still arm Well, it's cold and blue Though we walk through the valley... of death Death is walking there too Tumble tumbleweed at breakneck speed Oh and i've made friends with the hoppers Oh and i've become one of them We will cover the landscape We will prey on the kin We will darken the heavens And we will blot out the sun And we will build a new egypt And we will form a new god In our own image (repeat 9x) In our own image the grasshopper grows