The Long Way Around Lyrics - Standing In The Breach - Jackson Browne

I don't know what to say about these days 

I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways 

Even in the richer neighbourhoods 

People don't know when they got it good 

They got the envy and they got it bad 

When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free 

running up and down tinsel town with the fire inside of me 

my planets all in retrograde the best of all my plans got made 

I made my breaks and some mistakes 

Just not the ones people think I made 

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I'm a long way gone down this winding road I'm on 

It's gonna take me where I'm bound 

It's a long way around 

It's a little hard keeping track of what's gone wrong 

The covenant unravels and the news just rolls (?) along 

I can feel my memory letting go some two or three disasters ago 

It's hard to say what did more damage 

Citizens' United or the Gulf Oil Spill 

I'm a long way gone down this winding road I'm on 

It's gonna take me where I'm bound 

It's a long way around 

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It's never been that hard to buy a gun 

Now they'll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone 

The seeds of tragedy are there and what we feel we have the right to bear 

and watch our children come to harm there / they're? in the safety of our arms 

...??? the passions burn, heart goes out 

We're a long way gone down this winding road we're on 

It's gonna take us where we're bound 

It's a long way around