Bob Dylan - Foot of Pride lyrics
[Bob Dylan - Foot of Pride lyrics]
Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
So can a woman who passes
Herself off as a male
They sang "Danny Boy" at his
Funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
Preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed
It’s like the earth just opened
And swallowed him up he reached too high
Was thrown back to the ground
You know what they say about being nice to
The right people on the way up
Sooner or later you gonna
Meet them coming down
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Hear ya got a brother named James
Don’t forget faces or names
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
He looked straight into the sun
And said revenge is mine
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
Sing me one more song
About ya love me to the moon and the stranger
And your fall-by-the sword love
Affair with Errol Flynn
In these times of compassion
When conformity’s in fashion
Say one more stupid thing to me before
The final nail is driven in
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
There’s a retired businessman named Red
Cast down from heaven and he’s
Out of his head
He feeds off of everyone that he can touch
He said he only deals in cash or
Sells tickets to a plane crash
He’s not somebody that you
Play around with much miss Delilah is his
A Philistine is what she is
She’ll do wondrous works with your fate
Feed you coconut bread
Spice buns in your bed
If you don’t mind sleeping with your
Head face down in a grave
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Well, they’ll choose a man for
You to meet tonight
You’ll play the fool and learn how
To walk through the doors
How to enter into the gates of paradise
No, how to carry a burden
Too heavy to be yours
Yeah, from the stage they’ll be trying’
To get water out rocks
A whore will pass the hat
Collect a hundred grand and say thanks
They like to take all this money from sin
Build big universities to study in
Sing "Amazing Grace" all the way
To the Swiss banks
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
They got some beautiful people out there, man
They can be a terror to your mind and
Show you how to hold your tongue
They got mystery written all
Over their forehead
They kill babies in the crib and
Say only the good die young
They don’t believe in mercy
Judgement on them is something
That you’ll never see
They can exalt you up or
Bring you down main route
Turn you into anything that they
Want you to be
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Yes, I guess I loved him too
I can still see him in
My mind climbin’ that hill
Did he make it to the top
Well he probably did and dropped
Struck down by the strength of the will
Ain’t nothin’ left here partner
Just the dust of a plague
That has left this whole town afraid
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
Let the dead bury the dead
Your time will come
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
So can a woman who passes
Herself off as a male
They sang "Danny Boy" at his
Funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
Preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed
It’s like the earth just opened
And swallowed him up he reached too high
Was thrown back to the ground
You know what they say about being nice to
The right people on the way up
Sooner or later you gonna
Meet them coming down
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Hear ya got a brother named James
Don’t forget faces or names
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
He looked straight into the sun
And said revenge is mine
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
Sing me one more song
About ya love me to the moon and the stranger
And your fall-by-the sword love
Affair with Errol Flynn
In these times of compassion
When conformity’s in fashion
Say one more stupid thing to me before
The final nail is driven in
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
There’s a retired businessman named Red
Cast down from heaven and he’s
Out of his head
He feeds off of everyone that he can touch
He said he only deals in cash or
Sells tickets to a plane crash
He’s not somebody that you
Play around with much miss Delilah is his
A Philistine is what she is
She’ll do wondrous works with your fate
Feed you coconut bread
Spice buns in your bed
If you don’t mind sleeping with your
Head face down in a grave
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Well, they’ll choose a man for
You to meet tonight
You’ll play the fool and learn how
To walk through the doors
How to enter into the gates of paradise
No, how to carry a burden
Too heavy to be yours
Yeah, from the stage they’ll be trying’
To get water out rocks
A whore will pass the hat
Collect a hundred grand and say thanks
They like to take all this money from sin
Build big universities to study in
Sing "Amazing Grace" all the way
To the Swiss banks
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
They got some beautiful people out there, man
They can be a terror to your mind and
Show you how to hold your tongue
They got mystery written all
Over their forehead
They kill babies in the crib and
Say only the good die young
They don’t believe in mercy
Judgement on them is something
That you’ll never see
They can exalt you up or
Bring you down main route
Turn you into anything that they
Want you to be
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back
Yes, I guess I loved him too
I can still see him in
My mind climbin’ that hill
Did he make it to the top
Well he probably did and dropped
Struck down by the strength of the will
Ain’t nothin’ left here partner
Just the dust of a plague
That has left this whole town afraid
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
Let the dead bury the dead
Your time will come
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
When your foot of pride come down
Ain’t no goin’ back