You could die down here, be just another accident statistic"
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters
Show me someone who knows how to live it
But it sure does bother me to see my loved ones turnin' into puppets
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
They talk about a life of brotherly love
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
And there's a slow, there's a slow train comin' up around the bend
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
Have they counted the cost it'll take to bring down?
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
Are they lost or are they found?
She said, "Boy, without a doubt
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
I had a woman down in Alabama
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
With some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
All that foreign oil controlling American soil
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
Have to quit your mess and straighten out
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
They say, "Lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions"
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency
Well, my baby went to Illinois
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend
