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Lyrics for Foot of Pride by Bob Dylan:
| | | Artist: | Bob Dylan |
| | Album: | The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 | | Track: | Foot of Pride | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 141 | | | | Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
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 bein' nice to the
right people on the way up
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' 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 Erroll 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 sleepin' 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 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 tryin' to get water outta
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
Judgment 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
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