The Invertebraes (Live at Österåker Prison, Sweden - October 1972) - Johnny Cash

Written by：Johnny Cash/C.A. Johnston/Gordon D. Dillingham

Some men spend a lifetime in the hope they can

Devise

A chart which will an able man

Then someday analyze

The wretched men who stumble

Then somehow cannot arise

They'll pay one man to draw the charts another to

Declare

What secret signs are in the lines but do they

Really care

That one is long and one is short

And one line is not there

For charts or abstract documents

That cannot have a soul

They cannot tell why this man fell and that one

Reached his goal

Nor can they tell why some rebel and lose all

Self control

I think a thousand years from now

As it was long ago

Two roads will be for all to see

But which way will man go

Will he arise toward the skies to reach some

New plateau

Will he devise a brave new world a world thus

Far unknown

Will he plow under all the seeds of greed and

Hate he sewn

Or will he steal the very field

He plants his hopes upon

As long as there are two such roads a man

Can look upon

As long as some men linger deep within the twilight

Zone

The weak will always take the road that leads to

Wall of stone

There should be made a stone blockade torn from the

Prison stone

And make a wall across all roads man should not

Walk upon

And let the seeds of bitter weeds grow till that

Road is gone

Then those who sot in higher power

Those who hold the might

Could then direct the hordes of men on to the

Way that's right

And then the men who draw the charts

Would also see the light