Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Held Up By The Wires, artist - State Radio.
Date of issue: 28.09.2009
Song language: English
Held Up By The Wires |
Bought the old farmland for a song |
Sold it for many reasons too many of them wrong |
Horseshoe bets and the women that came along |
Blind drunk on their demon rum |
Kickin the pedals tryin to out run the dogs |
With no running start to jump over the fire |
Doin headstands atop of the rotten telephone poles |
All held up by the wire |
His knowledge a product of his loneliness |
A mad cousin to his holiness |
Maniacs in cages and patriots in sages |
A cruel untelling of the books |
But i’ll not give myself to the ground |
I kill, more than i live, so slowly |
Heard a great force raping the land |
Like general kelly and his ghost yellow man |
Marching like sherman in reverse |
Steeling the fire from the building, the city from the curse |
Master dies by his own hired hand |
Half a day later father’s hanging from the steeple |
Strongest body of thieves to ever scourge a land |
To ever pillage a people |
But i’ll not give myself to the ground |
I kill, more than i live, so slowly |
Oh, allow this night to go on let it roll along, the sun never rise |
Allow this life to go on, let it roll along, the sun never rise |
Say one thing and do another |
And bunker down in your alsatian den |
We ain’t got room for your politics here |
Politicians make a bad name for the conmen |
And water fell like burning metal |
Set off by a dying sun |
Them women they circled like covered wagons crying |
Their loved ones back from where they’ve gone |
But i’ll not give… |