Jakob Dylan - Down on Our Own Shield lyrics

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 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 It's a river of tears And we're in over our ears In the dark it rides off with our better years It's a bottomless well It's a little overk** 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