Ancient Highway Lyrics - Days Like This - Van Morrison

There's a small cafe on the outskirts of town 

I'll be there when the sun goes down 

Where the roadside bends and it twists and it turns 

Every new generation 

And I'll be praying to my higher self 

Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground 

There's a roadside jam playin' on the edge of town 

In a town called Paradise near the ancient highway 

When the train whistle blows 

All the sadness that Hank Williams knows 

And the river flows 

Call them pagan streams and it spins and turns 

In a factory, in a street called Bread in East Belfast 

Where Georgie knows best 

What it's like to be Daniel in the lion's den? 

Got so many friends only most of the time 

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When the grass is high and the rabbit runs 

Though it's talkin' to you and I 

And every new generation comes to pay 

The dues of the organ grinder jam 

And the grinder's switch of the sacrifice 

Everybody made to be rational with understanding 

And I'll be praying to my higher self 

Oh, don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground 

What about all the people living in the nightmare hurt? 

That won't go away no matter how hard they try 

They've got to pay, time and time again, time and time again 

I'll be praying to my higher self 

And I'll be standin' there when the boats go by 

When the sun is sinking way over the hill 

On a Friday evening when the sun goes down 

On the outskirts of town, I wanna slip away 

I wanna slip away, got to get away 

And I'll be praying to my higher self 

Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground 

Don't let me down 

You'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again 

By the same wipe the teardrops from your eyes 

Have to slip away in the evening when the sun goes down 

Over the hill with a sense of wonder 

Everything gonna be right on a Friday evening 

All the cars go by all along down the ancient highway 

And I'll be praying, I'll be praying to my higher self 

Don't let me down, keep my feet, keep my feet on the ground 

Keep my feet on the ground 

Traveling like a stranger in the night, all along the ancient highway 

Got you in my sights, got you on my mind 

I'll be praying in the evening when the sun goes down 

Over the mountain, got to get you right in my sight 

As the beams from the cars from the overpass 

On the ancient highway shine here like diamonds in the night 

Diamonds in the night 

I'll be praying to my higher self, to my higher self 

Don't let me down, don't let me down 

And you'll be standing there while the boats go by 

While the boats go by on a Friday evening 

Shining your light, shining your light on a Friday evening 

Got to slip away, got to slip away down that ancient highway 

In a town called Paradise, in a town, in a town 

All along, all along that road, all along that road 

All along that road with the trance like vision 

Along that road with the trance like vision 

Drivin on home, on my mind, on mymind 

I'll be praying to my higher self 

Don't let me down, don't let me down 

Keep my feet on the ground, keep my feet on the ground 

Keep my feet on the ground 

And on that Friday evening got to slip away 

Watching the view from a car from the overpass 

And we're driving down that ancient road 

Shining like diamonds in the night, oh diamonds in the night 

All along the ancient highway 

Got you in my sight, got you on my mind 

Got you in my arms and I'm praying and I'm gonna pray 

I'm gonna pray to my higher self, don't, ah don't let me down 

Ah, don't let me down 

Give me the fire, ah, give me the fire 

(I'll be praying, I'll be praying to my higher self) 

(Don't let me down, don't let me down)