When the train whistle blows
When the sun is sinking way over the hill
All along that road with the trance like vision
In a town called Paradise near the ancient highway
Every new generation
While the boats go by on a Friday evening
Watching the view from a car from the overpass
And we're driving down that ancient road
All along, all along that road, all along that road
Keep my feet on the ground
Call them pagan streams and it spins and turns
What about all the people living in the nightmare hurt?
In a town called Paradise, in a town, in a town
All the sadness that Hank Williams knows
And you'll be standing there while the boats go by
On the outskirts of town, I wanna slip away
All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway
Diamonds in the night
I'll be praying to my higher self
Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
When the grass is high and the rabbit runs
Though it's talkin' to you and I
Ah, don't let me down
Keep my feet on the ground
And I'll be praying to my higher self
That won't go away no matter how hard they try
Traveling like a stranger in the night, all along the ancient highway
Give me the fire, ah, give me the fire
Don't let me down, don't let me down
Everything gonna be right on a Friday evening
Along that road with the trance like vision
And I'll be praying to my higher self
Keep my feet on the ground, keep my feet on the ground
The dues of the organ grinder jam
On the ancient highway shine here like diamonds in the night
Don't let me down, keep my feet, keep my feet on the ground
I wanna slip away, got to get away
I'm gonna pray to my higher self, don't, ah don't let me down
Got you in my sights, got you on my mind
Over the mountain, got to get you right in my sight
And I'll be praying to my higher self
Shining like diamonds in the night, oh diamonds in the night
Have to slip away in the evening when the sun goes down
There's a roadside jam playin' on the edge of town
And the grinder's switch of the sacrifice
Shining your light, shining your light on a Friday evening
And I'll be praying, I'll be praying to my higher self
Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
On a Friday evening when the sun goes down
All along the ancient highway
Everybody made to be rational with understanding
Drivin on home, on my mind, on mymind
And on that Friday evening got to slip away
I'll be praying in the evening when the sun goes down
By the same wipe the teardrops from your eyes
Got you in my arms and I'm praying and I'm gonna pray
And I'll be standin' there when the boats go by
Don't let me down
I'll be praying to my higher self
Oh, don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
They've got to pay, time and time again, time and time again
Over the hill with a sense of wonder
Got you in my sight, got you on my mind
As the beams from the cars from the overpass
Got to slip away, got to slip away down that ancient highway
What it's like to be Daniel in the lion's den?
Don't let me down, don't let me down
And the river flows
You'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again
And every new generation comes to pay
Where Georgie knows best
Got so many friends only most of the time
I'll be praying to my higher self, to my higher self
Where the roadside bends and it twists and it turns
In a factory, in a street called Bread in East Belfast
(I'll be praying, I'll be praying to my higher self)
