Valley Of The Low Sun Lyrics - Seeing Things - Jakob Dylan

We'd feel much better if we sunk this treasure 

And we laid our armor down 

Now these precious metals, these captain's letters 

Are no use to us now 

Oh, in the day we struggle with fatigue 

Much greater than any offer was 

We bow down and worship these bandits and cowboys 

Unable to hold their own guns 

Now, I know that soldiers are not paid to think 

But something is making us sick 

Onward and steady, able and the young 

In the valley of the low, low sun 

Oh, in the shade we wander along a highway's shoulder 

Out into the back of beyond 

Burning the daylight into a pastime 

That's too wise to come more than once 

It's boom, boom thunder, ain't no sleep coming 

Out mining a slippery world 

Of snow covered beaches, junkyards of diesel 

And bombers named after girls 

On bridges of black ice not built for the rush 

There's a new kind of beast getting up 

Stranger than fiction, speaking in tongue 

In the valley of the low, low sun 

I'll hold on for the slow turning, smoke if you've got 'em boys 

This is bottom hiding out, down under the stairs 

Tomorrow has come like it's drunk on the blood 

Of the men who have dared to be there 

The earth's still climbing as it keeps on grinding 

It's way up around the sun 

As cool water crashes down to the masses 

Bootlegged and bottled like rum 

My dreams are humble and lean as arrows 

And streetwise, ready and fair 

As we bum rush the ages tied to the rails 

On high seas not fit to be sailed 

Whatever we've taken does feel like heaven 

But baby, we just look like hell 

Now act like you mean it where paradise was 

In the valley of the low, low sun 

Act like you mean it where paradise was 

In the valley of low, low sun