Down in a Ditch Songtext
von Dawson Cowals

Shots ring out
It feels like a dream
Find myself falling
Down, down, down, down

Funny how you never stop to think
Just what the toes of disaster might look like
From down here at eye level
′Til you come face to foot with the devil
Swimming at the bottom of some gutter
Splattered with your own life's blood
It feels like a flood
Down, down


While overhead
A ray of light shines down
A face peers into the murky darkness
But with my ears still ringing I hear
The echo of the windowsill
Slamming down
Down, down, down, down
Slamming down, down, down
With such hasty finality
Slamming down, down, down

Somewhere nearby
The siren′s song it calls to me
But they have bigger fish to fry
Bigger fish than I
Flopping down here
In this ditch of mine
So they just pass me
They just pass me by

But would you stop and help me
Help me to stand?
Would you deign to sully
Those spotless hands?
If you're really all
All about love
Why is it you don't have enough?
No, you don′t have enough
To pull me from this ditch


Da die da die da die
You leave me in this ditch to die
I′m down here lying
Dying in this ditch of mine

But something stirs
In the alley midst the newspaper
A box of cardboard shudders
Comes to life
Disgorging some creature leftover
Passed over by the human race

But his face I cannot see
So covered over with grime is he
And I'm afeared
He means me some further harm
But, but ever so gently
He picks me up
Cradles me in his arms
Carries me round the corner
To a mission there

Where the nuns tend my wounds
And they clothe me
Give me food
Well, it seems it was a crime
For anyone else to come near

But would you stop and help me
Help me to stand?
Would you deign to sully
Those spotless hands?
If you′re really all
All about love
Why is it you don't have enough?
No, you don′t have enough
To pull me from this ditch

Da die da die da die
Down here dying
Lying in this ditch of mine

I never learned the stranger's name
But as he turned to just walk away
I caught a glimpse
At an image stitched
It was a simple cross of wood

Would you have done the same
If, if it were you that day
Who found me in this ditch
Oh down in a ditch

Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down
Hmm, down, down, down, down, down
Hmm, down, down, down, down, down