Long Shadow - Joe Strummer, The Mescaleros

Well, Ill tell you one thing that I know

You dont face your demons down

You got to grab 'em jack

And pin 'em to the ground

The Devil may care and maybe God he won’t

Better make sure, you check on the 'Dos' and the 'Donts'

Crawl up the mountain

To reach where the eagles fly

Sure you can glimpse from the mountaintop

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

Then one day, I could tell my tracks

By the holes in the soles of my shoes

And that the day I said

Im 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 flow

From the Appalachians

Down to the Delta Roads

A man can’t think so long

His brain could well explode

Theres trains running through the junctions

A King comes 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 Night Streamliner

Sounding like the wolves of Hell

Head for the water, the water of the cleansing spell

It was always our destination

On the express of the Neer Do Wells

And we rock through Madison City

And we didn’t even know she was there

And when we hit the Buffers in Memphis

And Beale street didn’t have no prayer

I hear punks talk of anarchy, I hear hobos on the railroad

I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs

It was those men who built 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 and roll