Severance Pay When I came to the Prince William Sound The Glaciers were friends to me Not one of them said I had to be home Or I couldn't have a drink Sometime late in '63 Appetites finally grew near How to get kicked off a pipeline crew Get too drunk to feel fear
Winter was coming anyway seeming to last an age Lived off of my severance pay from the old pipeline days Did just fine out in the snow -- Jack was just a little help You think six months of darkness easy, you just try it yourself
Woke up in time that early spring To turn on the evening news Could only sit dumb as Cronkite said 'Look what's gonna happen to you' I was drunk when the shock wave hit Said goodbye to Valdez Nothing much there anyway Just the pipeline and me
Earth shook earth shook Never meant nothing to me Never meant anything