In a grim Montana way out west With a sky as big as doom The little ones escape their wretched womb They shuffle towards a setting sun in With hunger in their eyes They're craving frozen milk and salted fries They sniff the air with practiced care And drag their tired feet They're searching for a place that has the meat The beacon sits upon the hill Ten gallons cold and steel They cross the gate to take their joyous meal But inside their hope he died No children haunt this place No little toys for girls or boys We scream it in your face We are not for you You fatted calves No paper crowns no clowns No laughs No tiny straws for tiny mouths No orphans welcome in our house You fatted calves are banished to the south Hunger drove the fatted calves A bitter master's lash Curling towards a distant mountain pass They're sure that their salvation's in The valley held beneath They're dripping at the scent of roasting beef But at the border, who awaits A pair of burning steeds The fatted calves are driven to their knees Please oh please, you mighty steeds Look down on us with favor Lick our tears and taste the salty flavor But the mountain mist carries the taint Of their generation's choice The pumping horses stamp their feet And raise their fleshy voice We are not for you You fatted calves No paper crowns no clowns No laughs No tiny straws for tiny mouths No orphans welcome in our house You fatted calves are banished to the south The smoking pits gray their flesh And the butchers hoist their knives The fatted calves bow their heads And offer up their lives We are not for you You fatted calves No paper crowns no clowns No laughs No tiny straws for tiny mouths No orphans welcome in our house You fatted calves are banished to the south