We Go Down to That Corner

We Go Down to That Corner - These United States

We go down to that corner

We go down to meet our ball and chain

Down to that corner and the road back home is never the same

We go down like sinking suns bleeding light on everyone like the hammer of

That gun we go down

We go down to that corner when our heavy hearts have heard the sound

Down to that corner and the next you know we are down for the count

And there are oceans in our shoes and the way the mountains move

As the earth is split in two we all fall down

We went down to that corner when the grated road would shake her

Like a lonely undertaker pulling over to the shoulder

And with no one there to hold her I can see her still inside dreams

And a canopy of concrete seeking cover of the I beams or the speed of

The express lanes

In remembrance of ashtrays burning bright as better past days

Sunken skeletons in closets nursing bones broken by promise

I said

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

Cheer up baby cheer up

The horizon's getting near up there ahead

We went down to that corner we went down to free our ball

And our chain