Old Rodriguez doesn’t look so hot He doesn’t come around anymore And he sleeps all the time He went back to the war In the South Pacific Islands He flew in gliders at night And watched the natives for their warning sign That’s my grandad He lived a century long And towards the end there He traveled back in time He went back to the ranch And reconnected with his old man He worked the fields in the day Then home to dinner with his mother Then there are the ones that go too soon We live in the silence of their wake And I know we’ll be there soon But in the silence of their wake Is where we live I wonder if he ever heard about Ever heard about cargo cults If I could I would’ve asked him myself Did you ever hear of cargo cults