Out in the west, where the coyotes rest
   Lives Ed on a dusty little ranch
   400 miles from anything that smiles
   Just snakes, tumbleweed,
   and countro tapes
  
   Barrels in an old mine,
   waiting for the right time
   Seepage into waterways and wells
   "Cactus got a red head
   and my chicken all dead,
   I got green spots itchin' me like hell"
  
   [Chorus:]
   High life in the desert wasteland
   There's a big mess in the west
   Dioxin or heavy metal
   It's a big mess in the west
   Dump now you'll be payin' later
   For the big mess in the west
  
   "FUCK Inc., preaches ecology"
   Boss smiles, holding up recycled cup
   But in the night, when evil's out of site
   His waste goes on west and disappears
  
   Meanwhile in the distance,
   Ed is kinda' pissed and
   All his cows are growing funny horns
   Ed is losing his hair,
   and he's full of despair
   "Christ Almighty, everything is wrong!"
  
   [Chorus]
  
   Out in the west, where the coyotes rest
   Lived Ed on a dusty little ranch
   400 miles from anything that smiles
   Just snakes, tumbleweed,
   and country tapes
  
   Ed was taken east
   and noone ever missed him
   Had no kids, no relatives, no wife
   Then he was dissected,
   data were corrected
   But they won't be published on hour life