Slow Train
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgustedCan’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companionsAre they lost or are they foundHave they counted the cost it’ll take to bring downAll their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
I had a woman down in AlabamaShe was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realisticShe said, “Boy, without a doubtHave to quit your mess and straighten outYou could die down here, be just another accident statistic”There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
All that foreign oil controlling American soilLook around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassedSheiks walkin’ around like kingsWearing fancy jewels and nose ringsDeciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to ParisAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more.You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin'In the home of the braveJefferson turnin’ over in his graveFools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate SatanAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman hatersMasters of the bluff and masters of the propositionBut the enemy I seeWears a cloak of decencyAll nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religionAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are burstingOh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give itThey say lose your inhibitionsFollow your own ambitionsThey talk about a life of brotherly love show me someone who knows how to live itThere’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroyA real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop itI don’t care about economyI don’t care about astronomyBut it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppetsThere’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend