45th Parallel Struggling to breath Fighting out for freedom Living through some wicked hell Didn’t know what he’d become to mean While suffocating below the knee Of the 45th parallel Where everybody looks away Turn their heads and pray Up on the wishing well Where nobody takes the blame It’s hard to say the name When it doesn’t sell And you thought nothing bad happens On the 45th parallel From the Yellowstone to The Big Horn The bullets ripped and the bullets tore And the people fell 38th and Chicago, Miss Frazier on her cell phone Watching George’s farewell Now the city’s on fire, calling out the liars And the Liberty Bell Yeah you thought nothing bad happened On the 45th parallel I blew all my money, I smoked it all down In a Mohawk Motel It’s hard to forget time living on the borderline Between the barrel and the shell You thought nothing bad happens on the 45th parallel Three Nations Crossing on The 45th parallel Did you think God was out there on the 45th parallel You thought nothing bad happened on the 45th parallel