Story Behind The Song
"This song is essentially a collection of first lines of songs that I have written...most of them angry. It's about how sometimes you just want to give up on life, but you're not even courageous enough to do that." - BL
Song Description
The "Peter Gunn" driving bass riff accompanied with the laid back acoustic guitar provides a dichotomy of styles that reflect the tone of "Long Way Down". Is this person sick of the world...or is the world sick of him? Add in the electric guitar distortion in the bridge with the confused / agitated lyrics, and you've got a song that grooves and screams at the same time.
| Song Length |
4:21 |
Genre |
Blues - Rock, Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Distressed, Heated |
Subject |
Anger, Change |
| Similar Artists |
Johnny Winter, Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Smoking cigarettes until the filter?s gone
Noose hanging round my neck, yearning to do harm
Is it life that I found, or did life finally find me?
I feel like a ghost of myself in a world that can?t see
I keep trying to hit bottom?..but it?s such a long way down
Holy rollers in a religious war
The poor get less and the rich get more, more, more, more, more?
I know I sympathize, when all I want to do is hate
But I found God on a billboard on the Interstate
Think I?ll take myself out, give into the night
If I?m gonna go down, I?m gonna put a fight
No one ever truly lives and those that do are living a lie
I know it?s time to give up when I stop asking ?why??
I keep trying to hit bottom?..but it?s such a long way down
I try to analyze it, I try to hypnotize it, I try to verbalize it
But the words don?t come out
I keep trying to hit bottom?..but it?s such a long way down