Don't Set Foot Over the Railway Track

Don’t Set Foot Over the Railway track Don’t set foot over the railway track The heathens and the spin doctors are waiting round the back The skies are always sullen and rain races to the tarmac So don’t set foot over the railway track Don’t set foot over the railway track The gra*s isn’t green, it’s yellow and the pavement is all cracked The graveyard’s in a coma, the church has got the blues And Jesus has a nose-ring and Mary has tatoos And girls paint their skins like corpses and have hair ot scouring wire And the men all look like demons, see them dancing round their fires Every door has leprosy, every house has got the clap So, don’t set foot over the railway track Don’t set foot over the railway track Hope you’ve not been speaking to the wrong kind of people, Jack They’ll screw you son as look at you if you let them gain a foot This line’s God almighty’s way of saying that you’ll stay just where you’re put ‘Cause they’re all paid up party members with a red streak like a river They’re all standing there on their side saying “promise and deliver” They are papering their walls with pages of Kerouac So, don’t set foot over the railway track No, don’t set foot over the railway track