Long Shadow

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 â "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 And 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 Where 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 â " 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 'Til we hit the baffles in Memphis and Beale Street didn't have no prayer I hear punks talk of anarchy â " 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.