American Backslide-Garland Jeffreys

[ti:American Backslide] [ar:Garland Jeffreys] [al:Guts For Love] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]American Backslide - Garland Jeffreys [00:00.02]Written by：G. JEFFREYS [00:00.04] [00:10.59]How does it feel [00:12.14]In the morning shower [00:14.37]Will the great decision [00:16.43]Come before lunch hour [00:18.74]From the ivory tower [00:20.74]Like a proclamation [00:22.89]Who'll be the next to go [00:25.69] [00:28.04]How does it feel [00:29.23] [00:29.89]When you got no power [00:31.36] [00:32.02]And your fate is shaky [00:34.01]Like your destination [00:36.08]And your future's empty [00:38.68]Full of just frustration [00:40.73]And you're searching high and low [00:43.37] [00:45.54]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [00:51.81] [00:54.39]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [01:00.45] [01:03.09]How does it feel [01:04.35] [01:04.99]When you got no job [01:06.45] [01:07.15]And you got three kids [01:08.76] [01:09.29]Nothin' much to eat [01:10.85] [01:11.38]And you steal and you rob [01:13.10] [01:13.63]Just to make ends meet [01:15.23] [01:15.88]And you can't even stand on your own two feet [01:19.28] [01:20.61]How does it feel [01:21.86] [01:22.45]When your favorite player [01:24.04] [01:24.67]Has been bought and sold [01:26.84]Before he gets too old [01:28.37] [01:29.01]Leave him out in the cold [01:30.48] [01:31.21]With a pension and a plaque [01:33.43]And a drug addiction for his sacroiliac [01:37.12] [01:38.10]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [01:44.26] [01:46.18]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [01:53.04] [02:30.75]How does it feel [02:32.00] [02:32.55]When you're driving around [02:34.17] [02:34.70]In your automobile [02:36.27] [02:36.91]And they tell you it's real [02:38.52] [02:39.06]On your radio [02:40.52] [02:41.25]That they're makin' a deal [02:42.94] [02:43.47]But you know in your heart it's a dirty deal [02:47.00] [02:48.23]How does it feel [02:50.09]When everything you say [02:52.08]Seems to wash away [02:54.44]And is twisted like clay [02:56.55]And you stammer and you stutter [02:58.77]Every word you mutter [03:00.95]Like an echo in the dark [03:02.93]Is so ineffective [03:04.54] [03:05.70]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [03:11.76] [03:14.46]One o'clock jump one o'clock jump [03:20.65] [03:33.15]30 seconds 'fore the big strike [03:36.56] [03:37.56]No one's riding down the turnpike [03:40.86] [03:42.12]Everything is turning ghostlike [03:45.48] [03:46.72]60 minutes after midnite