Highwire Lyrics

Highwire lyrics

We sell 'em missiles, We sell 'em tanks
We give 'em credit, You can call the
bank

It's just a business, You can pay us in crude
You love these
toys, just go play out your feuds

Got no pride, don't know whose boots
to lick
We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand
up, out of my way
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up,
whose gonna pay
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the
highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
Hoping they don't catch the
hell fire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the
highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
And tell 'em to hotbed the
sunshine
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Our lives are
threatened, our jobs at risk
Sometimes dictators need a slap on the
wrist

Another Munich we just can't afford
We're gonna send in the
eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I wanna talk
to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, outta my way
I wanna talk to the
man right away

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a
deadline
And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
With hot guns and
cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a
deadline
Catching the bite on primetime
With hot guns and cold, cold
nights

Get up! Stand up!
Dealer! Stealer!
Hey!

We walk the
highwire
We send all our men into the front lines
We're hoping that we
backed the right side
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the
highwire
We send all the men up to the front lines
And hoping they don't
catch the hellfire
With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold,
cold
nights

We walk the highwire
We walk the highwire
With hot guns and
cold, cold, cold nights

With hot guns and cold, cold
nights

Jagger/Richards