Songtexte Down The Line - Namoratron

Down the line is where the temple lark flies up to meet the sun
Stocks of hope are looking thin like a fat man on the run
There ain't no place to hide that quite matches the dead of night
It was sunny a second ago something isn't right
We got no light to shine
There's murder down the line

Down the line the people learn how to brace for impact
Folks'll do anything once it becomes a matter of fact
Jack Macquart had known it he would've made it out alive
Said I saw you with my girl now don't give me no jive
I told you she was mine
There's murder down the line

I was born on Long Island where the carnies get the blues
It was arisen from the sea God did it for the jews
I had a revelation on my way to Aberdeen
You always end up pining for a girl you've never seen
And it always makes you whine
There's murder down the line

Down the line a birdwatcher gives away the plot
Everybody hears who's been pissing in the pot
Couples love to lie and they will do what couples do
Be careful around singers they'll pierce you through and through
It's ringing out the vine
There's murder down the line

D'you know what's really crazy about a shootout in a hall
People bounce like normal but for bullets it's off the wall
Nathalie she ain't crazy she's no madman on the loose
She's too logical to even shake hands on a truce
Though either one is fine
There's murder down the line

I used to have a friend he looked just like Brian Jones
You know he's always off somewhere spitting hustle bones
Here's something he learned doing fieldwork around Delph
What you wish to see others doing
Is often what you're needing for yourself
I would take it as a sign
There's murder down the line

I went to bed at eight but I woke up at eight thirty
I felt death in my eyes and your sister on my knee
My confusion took me shook me had me crying where I laid
The pain and terror went but the grinning guilt stayed
I could feel it in my spine
There's murder down the line