When you open your eyes
   To a brand new morning
   And the sun shines
   Above you
   You pull on your breeches and say
   Oh well,
   It's the start of a brand new day
  
   For birds of prey
   You live and learn your life away
   But there below, your body must go
   Against the grain
   Like an old mule train
   Keeps pulling hard against the
   Here boy, there boy
   The boss got you running everywhere boy
   'Ya got no money and ya got less sense
   And you ain't going nowhere'
   But there below your body must go
  
   For birds of prey
   You live and learn your life away
   But there below your body must go
   Against the grain
   Like an old mule train
   Keeps pulling hard against the
   Here boy, there boy
   The boss got you running everywhere boy,
   'Ya got no money and ya got less sense
   And you ain't going nowhere'
   But there below your body will go
  
   At the end of the day
   When you look around you
   And the sun sets
   Deep inside you
   Dust off your breeches and say
   'Oh well'
   Say goodnight to the man in the moon
   The sandman's on his way