Emmylou Harris Time In Babylon Lyrics

Time In Babylon Lyrics

Five-lane highway, danger zone

SUV and a speaker phone

You need that chrome to get you home

Doin' time in Babylon

Cluster mansion on the hill

Another day in Pleasant ville

You don't like it, take a pill

Doin' time in Babylon



In the land of the proud and free

You can sell your soul and your dignity

For fifteen minutes on TV

Doin' time in Babylon

So suck the fat, cut the bone

Fill it up with silicone

And everybody must get cloned

Doin' time in Babylon



Little boy blue come blow your horn

The crows are in the corn

The morning sky is red and falling down

The piper's at the till, he's coming for the kill

Luring all our children under-ground in Babylon



We came from apple pie and mom

Through civil rights and ban the bomb

To Watergate and Vietnam

Hard times in Babylon

Rallied round the megaphone

Gave it up, just got stoned

Now it's Prada, Gucci and Ferron

Doin' time in Babylon



Little boy blue come blow your horn

The crows are in the corn

The morning sky is red and falling down

The piper's at the till, he's coming for the kill

Luring all our children under-ground in Babylon



Get results, get 'em fast

We're ready if you got the cash

Someone else will be laughin' last

Doin' time in Babylon

So put that conscience on the shelf

Keep the best stuff for yourself

And let the rest fight over what is left

Doin' time in Babylon



Little boy blue come blow your horn

The crows are in the corn

The morning sky is red and falling down

Let your song of healing spark a way out of this dark

Lead us to a higher and a holy ground