Valley of the Low Sun

Album: Seeing Things (2008)
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  • We'd feel much better if we sunk this treasure

    And we laid our armor down

    Now these precious metals, these captain's letters

    Are no use to us now

    Oh, in the day we struggle with fatigue

    Much greater than any offer was

    We bow down and worship these bandits and cowboys

    Unable to hold their own guns

    Now, I know that soldiers are not paid to think

    But something is making us sick

    Onward and steady, able and the young

    In the valley of the low, low sun

    Oh, in the shade we wander along a highway's shoulder

    Out into the back of beyond

    Burning the daylight into a pastime

    That's too wise to come more than once

    It's boom, boom thunder, ain't no sleep coming

    Out mining a slippery world

    Of snow covered beaches, junkyards of diesel

    And bombers named after girls

    On bridges of black ice not built for the rush

    There's a new kind of beast getting up

    Stranger than fiction, speaking in tongue

    In the valley of the low, low sun

    I'll hold on for the slow turning, smoke if you've got 'em boys

    This is bottom hiding out, down under the stairs

    Tomorrow has come like it's drunk on the blood

    Of the men who have dared to be there

    The earth's still climbing as it keeps on grinding

    It's way up around the sun

    As cool water crashes down to the masses

    Bootlegged and bottled like rum

    My dreams are humble and lean as arrows

    And streetwise, ready and fair

    As we bum rush the ages tied to the rails

    On high seas not fit to be sailed

    Whatever we've taken does feel like heaven

    But baby, we just look like hell

    Now act like you mean it where paradise was

    In the valley of the low, low sun

    Act like you mean it where paradise was

    In the valley of low, low sun Writer/s: JAKOB DYLAN
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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