The truth comes out As the fire burns low It comes to light As only embers glow The whiskey talks The west wind moans in the night The deadfall's gathered And the branches are cut The kindling crackles And the smoke curls up The small sticks catch Then the bigger stuff will burn Chinook dies down As the dark descends And the pine has burned And the ash has cleansed The message smolders Is lost but finally sent Well, Connie says she's never seen The cougars so bold They're comin' in the yard And they're stealin' young colts And they drag 'em in the brush With the claws sunk in their nose The weather's been funny Thirty years or so The winters got warm And not as much snow Hear the big cats comin' 'Cause there's nowhere left to go You gotta look out for bear When you're fishing on Lee's creek They'll come 'round the bend And they'll make your knees weak There's grizzlies where there was No grizzly bears before Well, half-heard voices from the ghosts From the graves The grandfathers tell us At the mouths of the caves Only old chiefs older than Jesus Can save us now, if we're lucky White man light a big fire, stay cold The red man's warmer But the old man's old The antelope seeks the buffalo in the night Yeah, the antelope mourns the buffalo in the night Look out for bear When you're fishing on Lee's creek They'll come 'round the bend And they'll make your knees weak There's grizzlies where there was No grizzly bears before The truth comes out As the fire burns low It comes to light As only embers glow The antelope mourns the buffalo in the night