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?
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His laws are outdated,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 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 non-believers 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,
And there's a slow,
Slow train comin' up around the bend.

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