Verse
D#5
Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
D#5
So can a woman who passes herself off as a male
D#5
They sang “Danny Boy” at his funeral and the Lord’s Prayer
D#5
The preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed
G#5
It’s like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
G#5
He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground
D#5
You know what they say about bein’ nice to the right people on the way up
D#5
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin’ down
D# Cm
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 2]
D#5
Hear ya got a brother named James, don’t forget faces or names
D#5
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
D#5
He looked straight into the sun and said revenge is mine
D#5
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
G#5
Sing me one more song, about ya love me to the moon and the stranger
G#5
And your fall-by-the sword love affair with Errol Flynn
D#5
In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion
D#5
Say one more stupid thing to me before the final nail is driven in.
D# Cm
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 3]
D#5
There’s a retired businessman named Red
D#5
Cast down from heaven and he’s out of his head
D#5
He feeds off of everyone that-a he can touch
D#5
He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash
D#5
Not somebody that you play around with much
G#7
Miss Delilah is his, a Philistine is what she is
G#7
She’ll do wondrous works with your fate
D#5
Feed you coconut bread, spice buns in your bed
D#5
If you don’t mind sleepin’ with your head face down in a grave
D# Cm
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 4]
D#5
Well, they’ll choose a man for you to meet tonight
D#5
You’ll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors
D#5
How to enter into the gates of paradise – no ...
D#5
How to carry a burden too heavy to be yours
G#7
Yeah, from the stage they’ll be tryin’ to get water outa rocks
G#7
C# whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
D#5
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
D#5
Sing “Amazing Grace” all the way to the Swiss banks
D# Cm
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 5]
D#5
They got some beautiful people out there, man
D#5
They can be a terror to your mind and show you how to hold your tongue
D#5
They got mystery written all over their forehead
D#5
They kill babies in the crib and say only the good die young
G#7
They don’t believe in mercy
G#7
Judgement on them is something that you’ll never see
D#5
They can exalt you up or bring you down main route
D#5
Turn you into anything that they want you to be
D# Cm
Well, there ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back
[Verse 6]
D#5
Yes, I guess I loved him too
D#5
I can still see him in my mind climbin’ that hill
D#5
Did he make it to the top, well he probably did and dropped
D#5
Struck down by the strength of the will
G#5
Ain’t nothin’ left here, partner
G#5
Just the dust of a plague that has left this whole town afraid
D#5
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
D#5
Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come
D#5
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade
D# Cm
There ain’t no goin’ back
G#
When your foot of pride come down
D#5
Ain’t no goin’ back ... oh yeah
[Outro]
| D# Cm | G# | D#5 |
| D# Cm | G# | D#5 |
(repeat and fade)