The Shadow Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Dubious Merit 

Cover art for The Shadow lyrics by Devo

This song also references "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot - from part V:

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is Life is For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.