Highwire

Album: Flashpoint (1991)
Charted: 29 57
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  • We sell 'em missiles, we sell 'em tanks
    We give 'em credit, you can call the bank
    It's just a business, you can pay us in crude
    You love these toys, just go play out your feuds
    Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick
    We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

    So get up, stand up, out of my way
    I want to talk to the boss right away
    Get up, stand up, whose gonna pay
    I want to talk to the man right away

    We walk the highwire
    Sending the men up to the front line
    Hoping they don't catch the hell fire
    With hot guns and cold, cold nights

    We walk the highwire
    Sending the men up to the front line
    And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine
    With hot guns and cold, cold nights

    Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk
    Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist
    Another Munich we just can't afford
    We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

    Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
    I want to talk to the boss right away
    Get up, stand up, outta my way
    I want to talk to the man right away

    We walk the highwire
    Putting the world out on a deadline
    And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
    With hot guns and cold, cold nights

    We walk the highwire
    Putting the world out on a deadline
    Catching the bite on prime time
    With hot guns and cold, cold nights

    Get up! Stand up!
    Dealer! Stealer!

    We walk the highwire
    We send all our men into the front lines
    We're hoping that we backed the right side
    With hot guns and cold, cold nights

    We walk the highwire
    We send all the men up to the front lines
    And hoping they don't catch the hellfire
    With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold,
    Cold nights

    We walk the highwire
    We walk the highwire
    With hot guns and cold, cold, cold nights

    With hot guns and cold, cold nights Writer/s: KEITH RICHARDS, MICK JAGGER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaJeez, if the war back then was thought to be bad, think about this war.
  • Chelsea from Nyc, OrFirst time the Stones were censored in a long time.
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