Foot Of Pride - Bob Dylan

Like the lion tears

The flesh off of a man

So can a woman who passes

Herself off as a male

They sang danny boy at his

Funeral and the lords prayer

Preacher talking bout christ betrayed

It's like the earth just

Opened and swallowed him up

He reached too high was

Thrown back to the ground

You know what they

Say about bein nice

To the right people on the way up

Sooner or later you gonna

Meet them comin down

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back

Hear ya got a brother named james

Don't forget faces or names

Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed

He looked straight into the sun

And said revenge is mine

But he drinks and drinks can be fixed

Sing me one more song

About ya love me

To the moon and the stranger

And your fall by the sword love affair

With erroll flynn

In these times of compassion

When conformitys in fashion

Say one more stupid

Thing to me before

The final nail is driven in

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back

Theres a retired businessman named red

Cast down from heaven

And hes out of his head

He feeds off of everyone

That he can touch

He said he only deals in cash

Or sells tickets to a plane crash

Hes not somebody that

You play around with much

Miss delilah is his

A philistine is what she is

Shell do wondrous works with your fate

Feed you coconut bread

Spice buns in your bed

If you don't mind sleepin

With your head face down in a grave

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back

Well they'll choose a man

For you to meet tonight

You'll play the fool

And learn how to walk through doors

How to enter into the gates of paradise

No how to carry a burden

Too heavy to be yours

Yeah from the stage

They'll be tryin to get water outta rocks

A whore will pass the hat collect

A hundred grand and say thanks

They like to take all this money from sin

Build big universities to study in

Sing amazing grace all

The way to the swiss banks

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back

They got some beautiful people out there man

They can be a terror to your mind

And show you how to hold your tongue

They got mystery written

All over their forehead

They kill babies in the crib

And say only the good die young

They don't believe in mercy

Judgment on them is something

That youll never see

They can exalt you up or bring

You down main route

Turn you into anything

That they want you to be

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back

Yes I guess I loved him too

I can still see him in my

Mind climbin that hill

Did he make it to the top

Well he probably did and dropped

Struck down by the strength of the will

Ain't nothin left here partner

Just the dust of a plague

That has left this whole town afraid

From now on thisll be where you're from

Let the dead bury the dead

Your time will come

Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade

Well there ain't no goin back

When your foot of pride come down

Ain't no goin back