Foot of Pride - Lou Reed

Lou Reed plays Bob Dylan at the 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration of Bob Dylan -
Lou Reed -- Guitar, Vocals
G. E. Smith -- Guitar
Steve Cropper -- Guitar
Booker T. Jones -- Organ
Donald "Duck" Dunn -- Bass
Anton Fig -- Drums
Jim Keltner -- Drums
FOOT OF PRIDE
words and music 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 Lord's 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 conformity's 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
There's a retired businessman named Red,
cast down from heaven and he's 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
He's not somebody that you play around with much
Miss Delilah is his, a Philistine is what she is
She'll 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 you'll 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, this'll 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

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