Artist: Meat Puppets
Track: Plateau
Album: Meat Puppets II
Label: SST
Year: 1984

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands

Kirk Kirkwood, one of my favourite lyricists this side of Robyn Hitchcock.