John Cale The High And Mighty Road Lyrics

The High And Mighty Road Lyrics

Before the end of the beginning, before the finish credits role, there is a
brief but brutal truth along the high and mighty road. Faces tend to run
together, names be lost and legends told, of the ways to be forgiven on that
high and mighty road.

There is a will to test the power, there is the
struggle for control of the basic rights of passage along the high and mighty
road.

It is a journey for the taking, it is a choice that can be
made.
It is the soul that may be shaken, it is the spirit to be
sane.



There is hypocrisy and wonder, when fortunes pale and
empires home to an ancient way of magic along a high and mighty road.
Money
changers seeking payments for the priviledged to be so bold, to say the train
is not too crowded for a high and mighty road.
And the courage may be
tested, by judgement harsh and cold, from the monitors of progress along that
high and mighty road.

There are the words that have been spoken, there
is the life that's been portayed, it is a promise to be broken, it is the joy
that dies in vain.

Pale treasure, fragile beauty, or the messages set in
coal, we delivered as nostalgic on that high and mighty
road.



Sacrifice and deprivation are spiteful paradoxes sold as
begrudging restitutions along that high and mighty road.

And yet the
faces, oh God the faces, they seldom change from young to old, they only seem
to grow more brazen along the high and mighty road.
It is the future we are
trading, it is the prices that we pay, it is the mind that is mistaken, it is
the heart we give away.