The High & Mighty Road Lyrics - John Cale

Before the end of the beginning 

Before the finish credits role 

There is a brief but brutal truth along 

The high and mighty road 

Faces tend to run together 

Names be lost and legends told 

Of the ways to be forgiven 

On that high and mighty road 

There is a will to test the power 

There is the struggle for control 

Of the basic rights of passage 

Along the high and mighty road 

It is a journey for the taking 

It is a choice that can be made 

It is the soul that may be shaken 

It is the spirit to be sane 

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There is hypocrisy and wonder 

When fortunes pale and empires 

Home to an ancient way of magic 

Along a high and mighty road 

Money changers seeking payments 

For the privileged to be so bold 

To say the train is not too crowded 

For a high and mighty road 

And the courage may be tested 

By judgment harsh and cold 

From the monitors of progress 

Along that high and mighty road 

There are the words that have been spoken 

There is the life that's been portrayed 

It is a promise to be broken 

It is the joy that dies in vain 

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Pale treasure, fragile beauty 

Or the messages set in coal 

We delivered as nostalgic on that 

High and mighty road 

Sacrifice and deprivation 

Are spiteful paradoxes sold 

As begrudging restitutions 

Along that high and mighty road 

And yet the faces, oh God the faces 

They seldom change from young to old 

They only seem to grow more brazen 

Along the high and mighty road 

It is the future we are trading 

It is the prices that we pay 

It is the mind that is mistaken 

It is the heart we give away