Long Shadow

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Well I'll tell you one thing that I know
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You don't face your demons down
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You got to grab em jack
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And pin em to the ground

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The Devil may care, and maybe God he won't
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You better make sure you check on the Do's and the Don'ts

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Crawl up the Mountain

To reach where the Eagles fly
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Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop
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Where the soul of the muse might rise.

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And if you put it all together
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You won't have to look around
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You know you cast
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A Long Shadow On the Ground

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Then one day I could tell my tracks
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By the holes in the soles of my shoes
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And that the day I said
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I'm gonna make the news

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And falling in the garden
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Of days so long ago
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Somewhere in the memory
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The sun shines on you boy

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Playing in the Arroyos

Where the American rivers flow
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From the Appalachians
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Down to the Delta Roads

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A man can't think so long

His brain could well explode
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There's trains running thru the junctions
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A King comes down the road

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And if you put it all together
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You won't have to look around
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You know you cast
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A Long Shadow On the Ground

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Listen to the Country- The Night Jar and the Bell
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Listen to the Night Streamliner
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Sounding like the wolves of Hell
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Head for the water- the water of the cleansing spell
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It was always are destination
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On the express of the Ne'er Do Wells
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And we rock thru Madison City
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And we didn't even know she was there
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And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis
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And Beale street didn't have no prayer
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I hear punks talk of anarchy- I hear hobos on the railroad
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I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs
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It was those men who built the roads

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And if you put it all together
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You didn't even once relent
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You cast a Long Shadow
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And that is your testament
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Somewhere in my soul, there's always Rock and Roll