Verse
G5
Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
G5
So can a woman who passes herself off as a male
G5
They sang “Danny Boy” at his funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
G5
The preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed
C5
It’s like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
C5
He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground
G5
You know what they say about bein’ nice to the right people on the way up
G5
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin’ down
G Em
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 2]
G5
Hear ya got a brother named James, don’t forget faces or names
G5
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
G5
He looked straight into the sun and said revenge is mine
G5
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
C5
Sing me one more song, about ya love me to the moon and the stranger
C5
And your fall-by-the sword love affair with Errol Flynn
G5
In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion
G5
Say one more stupid thing to me before the final nail is driven in.
G Em
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 3]
G5
There’s a retired businessman named Red
G5
Cast down from heaven and he’s out of his head
G5
He feeds off of everyone that-a he can touch
G5
He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash
G5
Not somebody that you play around with much
C7
Miss Delilah is his, a Philistine is what she is
C7
She’ll do wondrous works with your fate
G5
Feed you coconut bread, spice buns in your bed
G5
If you don’t mind sleepin’ with your head face down in a grave
G Em
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 4]
G5
Well, they’ll choose a man for you to meet tonight
G5
You’ll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors
G5
How to enter into the gates of paradise – no ...
G5
How to carry a burden too heavy to be yours
C7
Yeah, from the stage they’ll be tryin’ to get water outa rocks
C7
F whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
G5
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
G5
Sing “Amazing Grace” all the way to the Swiss banks
G Em
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 5]
G5
They got some beautiful people out there, man
G5
They can be a terror to your mind and show you how to hold your tongue
G5
They got mystery written all over their forehead
G5
They kill babies in the crib and say only the good die young
C7
They don’t believe in mercy
C7
Judgement on them is something that you’ll never see
G5
They can exalt you up or bring you down main route
G5
Turn you into anything that they want you to be
G Em
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 6]
G5
Yes, I guess I loved him too
G5
I can still see him in my mind climbin’ that hill
G5
Did he make it to the top, well he probably did and dropped
G5
Struck down by the strength of the will
C5
Ain’t nothin’ left here, partner
C5
Just the dust of a plague that has left this whole town afraid
G5
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
G5
Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come
G5
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade
G Em
There ain’t no goin’ back
C
When your foot of pride come down
G5
Ain’t no goin’ back ... oh yeah
[Outro]
| G Em | C | G5 |
| G Em | C | G5 |
(repeat and fade)