Long Way Up (words/music - Lavash)

Originally recorded on demo album Slide (2010). Re-arranged and recorded for Live in Prague 2 (2018)

I was born with nothing

I'll take nothing when I go

'twas the midwife's slap

put a howl into my throat

and I crawled on all fours

and I'll crawl into the grave

I'll crawl up the ladder to the pearly gates

It's been a long way up

It's been a free-for-all, a jamboree

jumping up and down on the necromancer's knee

pulling out the pins from a voodoo doll

staring at the ceiling while you're going up the wall

it's been a long way up

but it sure seems a short step down

It's been a hunt and gather, been a slash and burn

it's been don't pass go, it's been miss a turn

it's been back to front, back to back

staring out the cage with a monkey on your back

it's been a long way up

but it sure seems a short step down

Someone's got the dollars but no-one's got the sense

and we're all overcome with indifference

Hell for leather at snail's pace

running out of patience with the human race

it's been a long way up

but it sure seems a short step down

Push and shove got my back to the wall

I've had enough, I'm sick of it all

Push and shove got my back to the wall

I've had enough, I'm sick of it all

it's been a long way up

but it sure seems a short step down

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