Long Shadow

Well I'll tell you one thing that I know

You don't face you demons down

You got to grab em jack 'em and pin 'em to the ground

The devil may care maybe god he won't

Better you make sure you check on the do's and don'ts

Crawl up the mountain to reach where the eagles fly

Sure you can't glimpse from the mountain top

Where the soul of the muse might rise

And if you put it all together you won't 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's the day I said I'm 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 but they the american rivers flows

From the appalachians down to the delta roads

A man can thinks so long his brain could well explode

There's trains runnin through the junctions

And king cottons 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 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 didn't even know she was there

When we hit the baffles in memphis

And beale street didn't have no prayer

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

I hear mutterings on the chain gangs

It's those men who build 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 'n' roll yeah