Down On Our Own Shield - Jakob Dylan

Oh, it’s a struggle, it’s a scrape

It’s all give and no take

Whatever it is now

Is right up to our waist

Oh, it’s a pity, it’s a shame

To see it all slip away

I’ve seen you worried babe

But never this way

We hold our ground

We don’t kneel

If we go down we go

Down on our own shield

Oh, it’s a river of tears

And we’re in over our ears

In the dark it rides off with our better years

Oh, it’s a bottomless well

It’s a little overkill

It’s the end of a dragon’s tail

That’s whipping around our heels

But we don’t bow

We make no deals

Now we go down we go

Down on our own shield

In this corner ladies and gentlemen weighing in

All along my love for her is strong

We scaled pillars to be here tonight

It’s not the kind’a trick that you get to pull twice

It’s an ambush girl

It’s a cold-blooded low down dirty world

I see them yellow lanterns walk

A circle around our bit of earth

It’s a turn for the worse

It’s off with their heads if they don’t learn

We do this over their dead bodies

Before it’s over mine or yours

We don’t beg for mercy dear

We go down we go

Down on our own shield

Down we go

Down on our own shield

Down we go