Life comes and goes Nothing stops the flow To the sound of a beat-up guitar Some believe back to the Creator We all must go To stop the panic in their hearts
I just believe in that old guitar And the melody it sadly plays We dance to its rhythm Which is all we can do Until our dying day
Some ancient but ageless Bluesman Blasting away in the key of E He hammers on, bends strings and twists the tune That is life to you and me
He lifts the bottle to his black lips And starts to jam on ' Dust My Broom ' Our lives are just swirls in the dust Of his beat-up, broke-down room
He knows the Crossroads, the Hellhound too Many times he's rode the blinds He's walked down all those dusty roads Knows his first and second minds
He opens his mouth to sing, out comes a moan Darker than a moonless night Deeper than the depths of all seven seas The Bluesman sings of wrong and right
Of salvation, sin and all between He weaves his words of woe To the unearthly clang of his guitar On the world must go
So pray he never runs out of songs That there's always another to choose There drinking whiskey in his old railroad shack Sits God singing the Blues