Slow Train lyrics

Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted

Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions

Are they lost or are they found

Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down

All 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 Alabama

She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic

She said, “Boy, without a doubt

Have to quit your mess and straighten out

You 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 soil

Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed

Sheiks walkin’ around like kings

Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings

Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris

And 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Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more.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 brave

Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave

Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan

And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition

But the enemy I see

Wears a cloak of decency

All nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion

And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting

Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it

They say lose your inhibitions

Follow your own ambitions

They talk about a life of brotherly love show me someone who knows how to live it

There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroy

A real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop it

I don’t care about economy

I don’t care about astronomy

But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets

There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

• Artist:Bob Dylan
• Album:Slow Train Coming (1979)