The Ghost of Preacher Casey Songtext

von Dave Sharp

Broken down drifters
Hobos and junkies
Half dead on the ground
In a twilight hooker's avenue
There's another gang fight goin' down
Six o'clock sound bytes of CNN news
Got the latest on a hostage uptown
Between inside and out of this satellite hell
It's strange how it all comes around
The young neo facists have found a new voice
A new churc and new faith
This is The Ghost of Preacher Casey callin' from the grave
Callin' from the grave

Crippled young wodows in cardboard boxes
Say "I'm starved, and don't pass me by"
TV evangelists with bibles in hand
Cruise the neighboorhood most every night
New mental rockers at the top of the dial
Say "hey, everything is all right"
While nervous senators on TV debates
Vote for judges who ain't fit to preside
No tellin' now as they send a man down
What future the're trying to create
This is The Ghost of Preacher Casey callin' from the grave
Callin' from the grave

Welcome back here to the ghetto now
There's got to be some good will left in this place
For as the big wheel turns the grafitti spreads
From the schoolhouse walls to the Whitehouse gates
And the 155 Hard Rock Cafes' the vigilantes talk out their
Face about eh border patrols the U.S. Sien Fienn
The death row statistics, religion, and aids
These are the days of political change
Out here it all looks the same
This is The Ghost of Preacher Casey callin' from the grave
Callin' from the grave