Woody Lissauer

Lyrics

There’s a shadow on the world
All people feel it
No one can conceal it
And they’ll end you for taking a chance

Shadow on the world

Good men and women reeling
Last hope of freedom
Packed up and sent back to France

Shadow on the world

I deny the shadow on the world
And rid the rule of rich men
Who have unfurled
Dividing lines
And lies so serpentine
To leave us shattered, battered, tattered
As we’re hurled

Into the shadow of the world

The old golden circus
His saints won’t preserve us
In hunger they’re chanting his name

In fire and in flame
The mirror cracks and trembles
The dying gasp dissembles
Turns back to dust and to shade

Shadow on the world

With drying eyes
I try it one more time
‘Cause halfway lost
Is halfway home

I defy the shadow on the world
And rid the rule of rich men
Who have unfurled
Dividing lines
And lies so serpentine
To leave us shattered, battered, tattered
As we’re hurled

Into a shadow of the world

Madness without method
Life misrepresented
Cast off and thrown in the trash

Shadow on the world

There’s a shadow on the world

Packed up and sent back to France

There’s a shadow on the world

Last hope of freedom

Gimme back my world
Gimme back my world
Gimme back my world

My world
Your world