Walk Us UPTOWN - Elvis Costello, The Roots

Will you walk us uptown?

And wherever you go You know we will follow

Will you walk us uptown?

And we’ll stand in the light

Of your new killing ground

And we won’t make a sound

Except to sing our sorrow

Will you walk us uptown?

While our tears run in torrents

To suffer in silence or pray for some solace

Will you wash away our sins

In the cross-fire and cross-currents

As you uncross your fingers

And take out some insurance

No matter what the price

It’s your own paradise

Will you walk us uptown?

Will you walk us uptown?

Some hearts are sinking

And some hearts are a-flutter

Some scoop gold from the dirt in the gutter

Or swallow the earth

Pouring into your mouth

As they bury us upright saying

«Everything's alright»

Will you walk us uptown?

Like some said that you could

We will feast on your flesh

And drink down your blood

Will you haul down that flag

And dishonour that vow

Cause we must not change

It’s color now

Will you walk us uptown?

No matter what the price

Each crushed in the corner of their own paradise

Will you walk us uptown?

Will you walk us uptown?

That’s always assuming

That you’re partly divine and partly human

You’re the king of our hearts

You’re the clown with the drum

Will you walk us uptown?

If we promise not to run

Will you walk us uptown?

Will you gather us near

As cowards flee and traitors sneer

Keep a red flag flying

Keep a blue flag as well

And a white flag in case it all goes to hell