Been Down This Road Before

All the signs been blown down
It’s getting dark and night is falling
The pavement ended miles ago
A lonesome crow is calling

I think we’re lost and all alone
We have wondered far from home
I feel a chill run up my spine
As the road begins to wind

Past a graveyard and burnt-out barn
A barbed wire fence, a foreclosed farm
A broke down car, a closed up store
We’ve been down this road before

[Chorus]
Better hit the brakes, better turn around
Try to find your way to higher ground
If you can’t win, don’t play their game again
Quit picking which lies to ignore
We’ve been down this road before

Like a beast with dead white eyes
Slouching toward the sound of lies
We can hear a sick man’s cries
And then a shout to let die

I think this road is old as time
Bread of the body, blood to wine
No rich men will cross this ground
See the lost souls and the dying towns
[Chorus]
We pass by fallow fields
Empty lots and houses darkened
More bad luck to be revealed
At the close of a devil’s bargain

So look real hard for a place to turn
On a one lane road in the dark of night
And leave behind a lesson learned
A trail of dust in the dim tail light