Verse
C5
Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
C5
So can a woman who passes herself off as a male
C5
They sang “Danny Boy” at his funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
C5
The preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed
F5
It’s like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
F5
He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground
C5
You know what they say about bein’ nice to the right people on the way up
C5
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin’ down
C Am
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 2]
C5
Hear ya got a brother named James, don’t forget faces or names
C5
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
C5
He looked straight into the sun and said revenge is mine
C5
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
F5
Sing me one more song, about ya love me to the moon and the stranger
F5
And your fall-by-the sword love affair with Errol Flynn
C5
In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion
C5
Say one more stupid thing to me before the final nail is driven in.
C Am
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 3]
C5
There’s a retired businessman named Red
C5
Cast down from heaven and he’s out of his head
C5
He feeds off of everyone that-a he can touch
C5
He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash
C5
Not somebody that you play around with much
F7
Miss Delilah is his, a Philistine is what she is
F7
She’ll do wondrous works with your fate
C5
Feed you coconut bread, spice buns in your bed
C5
If you don’t mind sleepin’ with your head face down in a grave
C Am
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 4]
C5
Well, they’ll choose a man for you to meet tonight
C5
You’ll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors
C5
How to enter into the gates of paradise – no ...
C5
How to carry a burden too heavy to be yours
F7
Yeah, from the stage they’ll be tryin’ to get water outa rocks
F7
A# whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
C5
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
C5
Sing “Amazing Grace” all the way to the Swiss banks
C Am
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 5]
C5
They got some beautiful people out there, man
C5
They can be a terror to your mind and show you how to hold your tongue
C5
They got mystery written all over their forehead
C5
They kill babies in the crib and say only the good die young
F7
They don’t believe in mercy
F7
Judgement on them is something that you’ll never see
C5
They can exalt you up or bring you down main route
C5
Turn you into anything that they want you to be
C Am
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 6]
C5
Yes, I guess I loved him too
C5
I can still see him in my mind climbin’ that hill
C5
Did he make it to the top, well he probably did and dropped
C5
Struck down by the strength of the will
F5
Ain’t nothin’ left here, partner
F5
Just the dust of a plague that has left this whole town afraid
C5
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
C5
Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come
C5
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade
C Am
There ain’t no goin’ back
F
When your foot of pride come down
C5
Ain’t no goin’ back ... oh yeah
[Outro]
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