Slow Train

Bob Dylan © 1979 Special Rider Music

(Official lyrics @ www.bobdylan.com)

Soundcheck, Capital Center, Largo MD - 5.oct.1978, BS 13 version #3
Slow Train Coming session 4, Muscle Shoals Studio, Sheffield AL - 3.may.1979, album version
Rehearsal, Rundown Studios, Santa Monica CA - 2.oct.1979, w/ horns, , BS 13 version #4
Fox Warfield theater, San Francisco CA - 1.nov.1979
Fox Warfield theater, San Francisco CA - 16.nov.1979, BS 13 version #1
Massey Hall, Toronto ON - 18.apr.1980, BS 13 version #5 
Massey Hall, Toronto ON - 19.apr.1980 
Massey Hall, Toronto ON - 20.apr.1980, BS 13 version #7 (DVD) 
Paramount NorthWest theater, Seattle WA - 30.nov.1980 
Paramount theater, Portland OR - 3.dec.1980 
Palais des sports, Avignon France - 25.jun.1981
Earl's Court, London UK - 27.jun.1981, BS 13 version #6
Earl's Court, London UK - 29.jun.1981, BS 13 version #2
Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro MA - 4.jul.1987

Sometimes I feel so low down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happening 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 going to have to abandon?
And 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"
And 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Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated they don't apply no more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 glorifyin' themselves, tryin' 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 non-believers and men stealers talking in the name of religion
And there's a slow, there's a slow train comin' up around the bend.

People starvin' and thirstin', grain elevators are burstin'
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
II don't care about astronomy
But it sure does bother me to see my loved ones turnin' into puppets
There's a slow, slow train coming up around the bend.