Bob Dylan
[The Bootleg Series - 1991]
[Infidels outtake - 25 April 1983]
Like a 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
The preacher talked about Christ betrayed.
It's like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
He reached too high and 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're gonna meet them coming down.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes down
Ain't no goin' back.
He got a brother named James, don't forget faces and names
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
He looks straight into the sun and says "Revenge is mine"
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed.
Sing me one more song about your "love me to the morning, 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.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes 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 says, "I only deal in cash" and sells tickets to a plane crash
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
Gives you coconut bread, spiced buns in bed
If you don't mind sleeping with your head face-down in a plate.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes 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
Up on the stage they'll be trying to get water out of 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.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes 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 bankrupt
Turn you into anything that they want you to be.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes down
Ain't no goin' back.
Yes, I guess I loved him, too,
I can still see him in my mind climbing that hill
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'll come
Through that hot iron glow as you raise the shade.
Yeah there ain't no goin' back
When that foot of pride comes down
Ain't no goin' back.
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