Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow lyrics

Well Ill tell you one thing that I know

You dont face you demons down

You got to grab 'em, jack 'em

and pin 'em to the ground

The devil may care maybe god he wont

Better you make sure you check on

the dos and donts

Crawl up the mountain

to reach where the eagles fly

Sure you cant glimpse from the mountain top

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

And then one day I could tell my tracks

by the holes in the soles of my shoes

And thats the day I said

Im gonna make the news

and falling back 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 flows

From the Appalachians

down to the Delta roads

A man can thinks so long

his brain could well explode

Theres trains runnin through the junctions

and king cottons down the road

And if you put it all together

You wont 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 the night streamliner

sounding like the wolves of hell

Head for the water the waters of the cleansing spell

it was always our destination on the express of the ner do wells

And we rock through Madison city

man we didnt even know she was there

til we hit the baffles in Memphis and Beale Street didnt have no prayer

I hear punks talk of anarchy I hear hobos on the railroads

I hear mutterings on the chain gangs

Its those men who build the roads

And if you put it all together

You didnt even once relent

You cast a long shadow

And that is your testament

Somewhere in my soul

theres always Rock n Roll.

Yeah.

Written by Joe Strummer and Smokey Hormel as a tribute to Johnny Cash, 2004