3. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - The Ghost of Tom Joad
(CD single from "Rage... Home Video)
Man walks 'long the railroad track
He's going some place and there's no turning back
Highway Patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge
The shelter line stretchin' around the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sIeepin' in their cars in the southwest
No job, no hope, no peace, no rest
The highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls prayer book out of his sleepin' bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
He's waitin' for when the last shall be first and
the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
With a one way ticket to the promised land
With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Looking for a pillow of solid rock
Bathing in the city's aqueduct
The highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of Tom Joad
Now Tom Said;
"Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry new born baby cries
Wherever there's a fight 'gainst the blood
and hatred in the air Look for me mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin'
for a pIace to stand Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes mom you'll see me."
Well the highway is alive tonight
Nobody's foolin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad
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