I was talkin’ to the preacher, said God was on my side; then I ran into the hangman, he said it’s time to die.
You gotta tell your story, boy, you know the reason why!

Slipping and sliding, and playing domino*.
Lefting and then Righting, it’s not a crime you know.
You gotta tell your story, boy, before it’s time to go!

* “domino” often refers to a country expected to react politically to events as predicted by the domino theory. [source] This would be in fine correlation with the “Lefting and then Righting” – the human tendency to sway quite easily between moderate, or extreme, political ideologies.