- Auteur : Sheryl Crow
- Album : Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood (2020)
- Durée : 5 min 22 s
Cette chanson a vu le jour en 1996 sur le deuxième album de la chanteuse Sheryl Crow, simplement intitulé Sheryl Crow. La reprise des Pretty Things s’inspire clairement de celle enregistrée par Johnny Cash peu avant sa mort et sortie en 2010 sur son album posthume American VI: Ain’t No Grave.
Paroles
I’ve wept for those who suffer long
But how I weep for those who’ve gone
In rooms of grief and questioned wrong
But keep on killing
It’s in the soul to feel such things
But weak to watch without speaking
Oh what mercy sadness brings
If God be willing
And there’s a train that’s heading straight
To heaven’s gate, to heaven’s gate
And on the way, child and man,
And woman wait, they watch and wait
For redemption day
Fire rages in the streets
And swallows everything it meets
It’s just an image often seen
On television
Come leaders, come you men of great
Let us hear you pontificate
Your many virtues laid to waste
And we aren’t listening
And there’s a train going straight
To heaven’s gate, to heaven’s gate
And on the way, child and man,
And woman wait, watch and wait
For redemption day
What do you have for us today?
Throw us a bone but save the plate
Oh, why we waited till so late
Was there no oil to excavate
No riches in trade for the fate
Of every person who died in hate
Throw us a bone, you men of great
And there’s a train that’s heading straight
To heaven’s gate, to heaven’s gate
And on the way, child and man,
And woman wait, watch and wait
For redemption day
It’s buried in the countryside
Exploding in the shells at night
It’s everywhere a baby cries
Freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom
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