Forum Post: Song - "Such a Long Way Down"

Back in 1987, we wrote / recorded this song - it's time is now.....

"Such a Long Way Down" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQMPgXtJZXA

Such A Long Way Down

Big Limousine / Racing down the street Takes a whole lot on money / To chase away the heat Out here on the range / Got to get it while you can Not enough to go around / For fools without a plan

Well there’s a cowboy motorcade / Crawling slowly up the hill Bad lines being drawn again / It’s the season of the chill They’re building fortresses in alleyways / See your brother in the dark Young mother’s on a park bench / Rage burning in her heart

It’s been a long way down / We took the wrong way down It’s been a long way down

From the summer of love / It’s been a long way down Have you seen them on the streets / Not enough to go around See your father in the darkness / Just a slave for the wage Watch the circle turn around / There’s got to be a better way

When you tell your children there’s no hope / See the hunger in their eyes Watch your brother turn around / Carve his future with a knife

Such a long way down / We took the wrong way down It’s been a long way down / Yeah!

Solo / We took the long way down / Solo

Open season on the range / As we stumble through the night See your children take the fall / Will we ever see the light Right here on our doorstep / Right at home on the range People living on the streets / People begging for change

When you tell the people there’s no hope / See the hunger in their eyes Watch your children turn around / Carve his future with a knife

Yeah it’s out here on the range / As the picture fades to grey If you saw it going down / Why’d you look the other way

Such a long way down / The long way / Down / Such a long way down / The wrong way / Yeah

Big Limousine / Racing down the street / Yeah / We took the long way down

Words & Music © 1987 Deborah Meadows / Brewer Shettles Music © 1987 Mark Moses