There's a small cafe on the outskirts of town
   I'll be there when the sun goes down
   Where the roadside bends
   And it twists and turns
   Every new generation
   And I'll be praying to my higher self
   Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
  
   There's a roadside jam playin' on the edge of town
   In a town called Paradise near the ancient highway
   When the train whistle blows
   All the sadness that Hank Williams knows
   And the river flows
   Call them pagan streams and it spins and turns
   In a factory in a street called Bread in East Belfast
   Where Georgie knows best
   What it's like to be Daniel in the lion's den
   Got so many friends only most of the time
  
   When the grass is high and the rabbit runs
   Though it's talkin' to you and I
   And every new generation comes to pay
   The dues of the organ grinder jam
   And the grinder's switch of the sacrifice
   Everybody made to be rational with understanding
   And I'll be praying to my higher self
   Oh, don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground
  
   What about all the people living in the nightmare hurt
   That won't go away no matter how hard they try
   They've got to pay time and time again, time and time again
   I'll be praying to my higher self
   And I'll be standin' there, where the boats go by
   When the sun is sinking way over the hill
   On a Friday evening when the sun goes down
   On the outskirts of town, I wanna slip away
   I wanna slip away, got to get away
   And I'll be praying to my higher self
   Don't let me down, keep my feet on the ground, don't let me down
  
   You'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again, you'll be cryin' again
   By the same wipe the teardrops from your eyes
   Have to slip away in the evening when the sun goes down
   Over the hill, with a sense of wonder
   Everything gonna be right on a Friday evening
   All the cars go by all along down
   The ancient highway
   And I'll be praying, I'll be praying to my higher self
   Don't let me down, keep my feet, keep my feet on the ground
   Keep my feet on the ground
  
   Travelling like a stranger in the night, all along the ancient highway
   Got you in my sights, got you on my mind
   I'll be praying in the evening when the sun goes down
   Over the mountain, got to get you right in my sight
   As the beams on the cars from the overpass
   On the ancient highway shine like diamonds in the night
   Like diamonds in the night
   I'll be praying to my higher self, to my higher self
   Don't let me down, don't let me down
  
   And you'll be standing there, while the boats go by
   While the boats go by on a Friday evening
   Shining your light, shining your light on a Friday evening
   Got to slip away, got to slip away down that ancient highway
   In a town called Paradise, in a town, in a town
   All along, all along that road, all along that road,
   All along that road with the trancelike vision
  
   I'll be praying to my higher self, don't let me down, don't let me down
   Keep my feet on the ground, keep my feet on the ground,
   Keep my feet on the ground
   Friday evening got to slip away
   Watching the view from a car from the overpass
   And we're driving down that ancient road
   Shining like diamonds in the night, oh diamonds in the night
   All along the ancient highway
   Got you in my sight, got you in my mind
   Got you in my arms and I'm praying, and I'm gonna pray
   I'm gonna pray, to my higher self, ah don't let me down
   Don't let me down, give me the fire, ah give me the fire