Lay Me Down Songtext
von James Riley

No greater power than the singer and
The strummer has beneath his hands
And now no greater fortune do I owe
Cometh the hour of the ringer and the runner and the faith machines
But I, I put no faith in those who know
Lay me down, I wanna listen to that earthly sound
Lay me down, oh lay me down
Lay me down, I wanna listen to that earthly sound
Lay me down, oh lay me down, just lay me down
Quietly marching, all the armies of the dawning of the things to come
And now swept along within the tide
Something is starting, but you′ll never
Know the meaning 'til you hear the sound
Of those footsteps that follow in your stride
Lay me down, I wanna listen to that earthly sound
Lay me down, oh lay me down
Lay me down, I wanna listen to that earthly sound
Lay me down, oh lay me down, just lay me down
This is a communication, not a whisper
Not a warning, not a grain of sand


And no, no seed to sow beneath the ground
Cross every nation ′til the morning
And the dawning and the daylight comes
And the, the day they all come tumbling down
To all the drinkers and the thinkers and the ones that know
All the firestarters and the bomberos
All the big wheels in the motorcade
Teachers and the preachers and the renegades
Jugglers and the smugglers and the philistines
Born in a bordello or a beauty queen
Jailors and the whalers and the CIA
One who never knew it any other way
One who makes a furnace to forsake the sun
One who gets his lovin' from a loaded gun
One who has a hunger for a tongue of flame
One among a million other souls to claim
Time will say you're never gonna know the truth
But I′ll strum by tongue and nail and tooth
And I′ll keep walkin' ′til I need no proof
That there's peace beneath the ground, just lay me down
Lay me down, I wanna listen to that earthly sound
Lay me down, oh lay me down
Lay me down, oh lay me down, for there′s peace beneath the ground
So lay me down, just lay me down