Early Roman Kings: Dylan Unleashed

The video from the Cinemax series "Strike Back" has been out for a little while, but we have been really grooving of late to the Bob Dylan TEMPEST album, especially "Early Roman Kings" a heavy blues riff, lyrically adventurous, as always : All the early roman kings in their sharkskin suits bowties and buttons hightop boots drivin' the spikes in raisin' the rails nailin' the coffins in top hats and tails fly away over fly away flap your wings fly by night like the early roman kings all the early roman kings in the early early morn comin' down the mountain distributing the corn speeding through the forest racin' down the track you try to get away they drag you back tomorrow is ? we'll see what it brings everybodys talkin' about the early roman kings there's peddlers and theres meddlers they buy and they sell they'll destroy your city they'll destroy you as well their lecherous and trechurous hell-bent for leather each of 'em bigger than all them put together sluggers and muggers wearin' fancy gold rings all the women goin' crazy for the early roman kings i can dress up your wounds with a blood clotted rag i ain't afraid to make love ? if you see me comin' and your standin' there wave your hankerchief in the air i ain't dead yet my bell still rings i keep my fingers crossed like the early roman kings i can strip you of life strip you of breath ship you down to the house of death one day you will ask for me they'll be no one else that you'll wanna see bring down my fiddle tune up my strings i'm gonna break it wide open like the early roman kings i was up on black mountain the day detroit fell they killed 'em all off and they sent 'em to hell ding dong daddy you're comin' up short gonna put you on trial in a sicilian court i had my fun i had my flings gonna shake 'em on down like the early roman king -Bob Dylan 2012