Bob Dylan - Slow Train lyrics
[Bob Dylan - Slow Train lyrics]
Sometimes i feel so low down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's
Happening to my companions
Are they lost or are they found?
Have they counted the cost it'll
Take to bring down
All their earthly principles they're going
To have to abandon? There's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
I had a woman down in Alabama
She was a backwoods girl
But she sure was realistic
She said, "Boy, without a doubt
Have to quit your mess and straighten out
You could die down here
Be just another accident statistic"
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
All that foreign oil
Controlling American soil look around you
It's just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walking around like kings
Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America's future from
Amsterdam and Paris and there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Man's ego is inflated his laws are outdated
They don't apply no more
You can't rely no more to
Be standing around waiting
In the home of the brave
Jefferson turning over in his grave
Fools glorifying themselves
Trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Big-time negotiators
False healers and woman haters
Masters of the bluff and
Masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency
All non-believers and men-stealers talking in
The name of religion and there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
People starving and thirsting
Grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the
Food than it do to give it
They say, "Lose your inhibitions
Follow your own ambitions"
They talk about a life of brotherly love show
Me someone who knows how to live it
There's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Well, my baby went to Illinois
With some bad talking boy she could destroy
A real suicide case
But there was nothing I could do to stop it
I don't care about economy
I don't care about astronomy
But it sure does bother me to see
My loved ones turning into puppets
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Can't help but wonder what's
Happening to my companions
Are they lost or are they found?
Have they counted the cost it'll
Take to bring down
All their earthly principles they're going
To have to abandon? There's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
I had a woman down in Alabama
She was a backwoods girl
But she sure was realistic
She said, "Boy, without a doubt
Have to quit your mess and straighten out
You could die down here
Be just another accident statistic"
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
All that foreign oil
Controlling American soil look around you
It's just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walking around like kings
Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America's future from
Amsterdam and Paris and there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Man's ego is inflated his laws are outdated
They don't apply no more
You can't rely no more to
Be standing around waiting
In the home of the brave
Jefferson turning over in his grave
Fools glorifying themselves
Trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Big-time negotiators
False healers and woman haters
Masters of the bluff and
Masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency
All non-believers and men-stealers talking in
The name of religion and there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
People starving and thirsting
Grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the
Food than it do to give it
They say, "Lose your inhibitions
Follow your own ambitions"
They talk about a life of brotherly love show
Me someone who knows how to live it
There's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend
Well, my baby went to Illinois
With some bad talking boy she could destroy
A real suicide case
But there was nothing I could do to stop it
I don't care about economy
I don't care about astronomy
But it sure does bother me to see
My loved ones turning into puppets
And there's a slow
Slow train coming up around the bend