Tom Morello - The Lost Cause ft. Manchester Orchestra (Official Lyric Video)

This one's for the shoeshine boy

And the farmer in debt

Each string is barbed wire

Each chord is a threat

This blues guy I met

That never had a hit

Said you don't gotta be loud, son

To be heavy as shit

Well I'm the triggerman, baby

And tonight I'll prove

That this machine here

Well it kills fascists too

And don't be surprised

If the sermon on the mount

Next time is delivered

In a little coffee house

Cause somebody here's

Gotta let them know

I doubt it's me

But here I go

I hit the button

Tape started to roll

The song's got fire

But it's got no soul

There's a lonely stretch of blacktop

Between here and home

Drop down into the valley

Piano playin' in the living room

And when you see the white barn

You'll know the journey's through

My dog's barking in the backseat

Cause he knows it too

You'll need a fake passport

And fix your disguise

And don't fire, sugar

Til you see the whites of their eyes

I turned the other cheek

But now I'm through

The skin you're in

Makes choices for you

I was checking off names

And I came late to dinner

Seems the slices of pie

Keep getting thinner and thinner

Brothers and sisters

Rejoice and repent

The landlord's dead

You can keep the rent

You got twelve fine friends

But one of 'em's rotten

There's a hole out back

Ain't got no bottom

Forty days in the wilderness

Forty sleepless nights

I'm confused, half blind

And sure I'm right

There's a lonely stretch of blacktop

Between here and home