Joe Strummer - The long shadow lyrics

Well I'll tell you one thing that I know You don't face your demons down You gotta grapple 'em, Jack And pin 'em to the ground The devil may care Maybe God he won't Ya better you make sure You check on the do's and the don'ts Crawl up the mountain To reach where the eagles fly Sure you can 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 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 flow From the Appalachians Down to the Delta roads A man can think so long His brain could well explode There's trains runnin' through the junctions And King Cotton's 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 stream-liner Sounding like the wolves of hell Head for the water The waters of the cleansing spell It was always our destination On the express of the ne'er-do-wells And we rock through Madison City Man, we didn't even know she was there And when we hit the baffles in Memphis Beale Street didn't have no prayer And I hear punks talk of anarchy 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 an' roll Yeah