Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Lyrics

3. Long Shadow

Well I'll tell you on thing that I know 
You don't face your demons down 
You got to grab em jack 
And pin em to the ground 

The Devil may care, and maybe God he won't 
Better make sure you check on the Do's and the Don'ts 

Crawl up the Mountain 
To reach where the Eagles fly 
Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop 
Where the soul of the muse might rise. 

And if you put it all together 
You wont have to look around 
You know you cast 
A Long Shadow On the Ground 

Then one day I could tell my tracks 
By the holes in the soles of my shoes 
And that the day I said 
I'm gonna make the news 

And falling in the garden 
Of days so long ago 
Somewhere in the memory 
The sun shines on you boy 

Playing in the Arroyos 
Where the American rivers flow 
From the Appalachians 
Down to the Delta Roads 

A man can't think so long 
His brain could well explode 
There's trains running thru the junctions 
A King comes down the road 

And if you put it all together 
You won't have to look around 
You know you cast 
A Long Shadow On the Ground 

Listen to the Country- The Night Jar and the Bell 
Listen to the Night Streamliner 
Sounding like the wolves of Hell 
Head for the water- the water of the cleansing spell 
It was always are destination 
On the express of the Ne'er Do Wells 
And we rock thru Madison City 
And we didn't even know she was there 
And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis 
And Beale street didn't have no prayer 
I hear punks talk of anarchy- I hear hobos on the railroad 
I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs 
It was those men who built the roads 

And if you put it all together 
You didn't even once relent 
You cast a Long Shadow 
And that is your testament 

Somewhere in my soul, there's always Rock and Roll

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