Song Description
True story of friendship lost because of Iraq war, and the general tearing of the fabric of our country caused by that colossal mistake.
| Song Length |
4:06 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Distressed |
Subject |
Regret, War |
| Similar Artists |
Cat Stevens, U2 |
| |
Lyrics
Shouldn'ta Gone Down That Way
© Bill Burnett
I got an old friend
Who won't talk to me
She thinks I'm some kind of beast
She won't be on the same block with me
Though I used to be her priest
And it comes at a heavy cost to me
That my old friend has been lost to me
I am guilty of hot honesty
I let some heavy trips
Flow through my finger tips
It shouldn'ta gone down that way, It shouldn'ta gone down that way,It shouldn'ta gone down that way
It shouldn'ta gone down that way,It shouldn'ta gone down that way,It shouldn'ta gone down that way
Ah but hold on, there's a war on
And that changes things a bit
Bloody murder, gruesome torture, the worst crimes we can commit
And every day there was more and more of it
And I deplored it, I abhored it
And my old friend voted for it
That's why I had to say
After election day
You shouldn'ta gone down that way,You shouldn'ta gone down that way,You shouldn'ta gone down that way
You shouldn'ta gone down that way, You shouldn'ta gone down that way,You shouldn'ta gone down that way
All our lives we marched side by side heart to heart through every twist and turn
Who'd have thought that one shot from a terrorists dart
Could make our hearts crash and burn
So the years flew
And she has rejected
Every olive branch I send
She is true to the objective
That this war should never end
And the hillsides have caught fire
And the water keeps on getting higher
And the same tribes still conspire
And I'm preaching to choir
Cause we never will get back
Back from this cul de sac
We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way
We shouldn't gone down that way,We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way
We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way
We shouldn't gone down that way, We shouldn't gone down that way
We shouldn'ta gone down
Not that way