BLIND MAN'S SON
I was waiting at the station
for that first train to arrive
from one town to another
with that long-haired friend of mine
Me with a bag full of fancy clothing
home-baked bread and plenty of wine
he just a suitcase filled with stories
that long-haired friend of mine
He shared some of his wisdome
gave me reasons gave me rhymes
taught me how to deal with trouble
that long-haired friend of mine
It musta been late sundaynight
when a dream came upon me
I killed a man with my bare hands
in a rage of jealousy
All were shocked and the headlines read
why such a drastic act
I got mad and I wanted him dead
he was a crook and that's a fact
He was talking' about this and
that and this again
when suddenly his tone of voice changed
I saw your gal she's swell I can tell
we're gonna have diner
it's all arranged
I cried out you big big swine
now you're goin' too far
stay away from her she's mine
a lousy crook that's all that you are
Too late too late he said I'm gonna
get her drunk and in to bed
and no one in the world
can change my mind
I yelled maybe that is true
it won't be easy stopping you
but me too I'm of the hard kind
then he laughed and I lost control
placed my hands upon his throat
I pushed and pressed and I squeezed
and brought that spook
before the lord above
A silent soul is silver
one of little words is gold
it's hard but I tried even harder
to define and to unfold
but I couldn't come to answers
so I threw the question back
there are three reasons for loving
and a lace to remind around her neck
We travelled through the mountains
saw the valleys down below
we didn't follow anybody's footsteps
we had our own special place to go
we had water from the rockies
loaves of bread coming down from the sky
and three reasons for loving
as a key to the needle's eye
The posses giving persistant chase
aiming to watch us die
we outsmartened them with godgiven strenght
and saw them drown in their own lies
she led me across the Jordan river
to the land that I heard so much about
there are three reasons for loving
she moaned as the lights turned out
Oh Mary she couldn't see
she was blinded by tears for the lost
she came from opening Jesus' grave
there was nothing but some lines in dust
Hey gardener she cried as she ran
has someone passed you coming this way
did you see my Saviour and friend
He might be alive today
I still remember the first time we met
't was in the house of the judge of Magdala
He was there as an honoured guest
and I was there on the job
Frisky, playful like a little bird
I lay waiting in the master's bed
I overheard there game of words
and I was astonished by what
the Stranger said
Throuhg the banisters I took a peep
there sat a Man with a golden glow
talking about a flock of sheep and
a mostardseed
and the riverbed in which to flow
watching and listening and
absorbing it all
I was struck by a purifying light
I ran down the stairs and I knelt
at the chair
of the Healer Who gave me sight
With my long black locks I dried His feet
for with my tears He cast the demons out
seven was there number,
eternal their defeat
and my soul free from doubt
I kissed and perfumed His toes and heels
much in disapproval of the pharisee
all my good money spent on
a so-called-heaven-sent
for now a prophet You can't be
Simon oh Simon Jesus replied
here's something that I got to say
who owes God the most, who loves
Him the most
and this woman proved her love today
After that I went in peace
my sins forgiven and my faith revealed
knowing that His follower I was to be
that day my future was sealed
I was there when he feeded
fourthousand
three days they gathered and had
nothing left to eat
seven loaves of bread and seven
fishes was all He had
seven basketfull 're picked up
after the meal
And I heard the sermon on the mount
saw the healing of lepers and lame
I followed Him from Magdala in Galilee
to Golgotha in Jerusalem
That's the story Mary told the gardener
Who than showed His hands and
looked her in the eyes
Mary He said, Master! she exclaimed
Jesus had been recognized
Well I went out to town one morning
I carefully started the day
There was no one who would listen
I had nothing to say anyway
There was poison in the backstreet
there was poison in the pub
there was poison in my ears
and poison in my cup
But me I'm only able
to do and see what's done
alone at the table
I'm the blind man's son
I saw a woman bleeding
and I saw a man who laughed
I showed him the knife in my right
and I punched him with my left
I heard a baby crying
it belonged to her
the woman that I stabbed
well, lovers then we were
Masculinity was calling
me to come
said go on to the house
and put your best shirt on
The ugliest bitch in town
came sitting next to me
I told her a story
from the fourteenth century
Coming from the mind of a lowdown thief
she's more than an image, a servant, a chief
she's twenty, she's thirty, almost seventeen
she's the powder, the water, the sugar, the cream
She's warm, she's open, she's always at home
she's a fine host, many-sided, polychrome
she reads your face and then leaves it to be
she's full of gold in her poverty
Shouldn't she get a lotta love
the flowered madonna
She's a picture to strangers and pictures to you
she's an artist in everything you want her to do
she's a guide to hapiness and a friend to the guide
she's the queen of taste, she's pleasant, she's bright
And then she lays her hand on your shoulder
but you stiffen you turn colder and colder
seems it only happens in your mind
is it a wonder she is asking herself
if you're mad or if there's anyone else
the answer is impossible to find
You saw me on the marketplace
I bought a sour apple for the morning
you talked to me I nodded
I walked with you and then suddenly
left without warning
I headed for a restaurant my eyes
fixed upon the ground
not only to keep a clean sole but
to ban out every sound
circling round you
The good years are coming
the bad years 're gone
It's not that I hold a grudge
for a time you loved so much
and me I hated
is it so hard for you to understand
one of us tries to forget all about it later
little harm is done and everything's said
a special love is born and a bitter one is dead
the latter being you
The good years are coming
the bad years gone
The old man said you seen cars
passing one by one
you've seen people come and go
you been staring through the window
boy far too long
I think there is something that
we oughta know
don't mind your thoughts
if you can not stand our faces
or put the gum into your ear
finally you meet her at the porsch steps
in a few rare cases you do you know
and I said well it's faith
that brought me here
Well I turn to you Annie
will you take care of my heart
too long of time it was abandoned
and we are written in the stars
The young man said you oughta be a joking
there is no future for you in love
and I would agree with him
normally a spoken
but ain't the future I'm thinking of
So you say I told you many lies
things may not be what they are to you
with every shot the gunsmith dies
and every rainfall brings you flu
blame it all on the weather
My friend he left his girl in june
he could not stay with her for fun
not keep his promise of the moon
and left her hotter than the sun
blame it all on the weather
Oh beautiful morning
it's been a while since you last
appeared near my bed
was there anybody else who needed you badly
who kept you away and who made you forget
was there anybody more worthy
of your kindness
was there anybody more troubled than I
Oh beautiful morning
I'm glad that you came by
Oh beautiful morning
from the break of day
till the hour of noon
with the calyses open wide and
the crickets playing their tune
when the fondling beams glide
through the chinks into my darkened room
when the eastern light glitters upon
the drops of dew
which color green the pastures,
make them shine
Oh beautiful morning
you can wake me anytime
Goodbye baby we didn't last too long
but I'm glad we ended it before
the break of down
you would've taken it hard
wakin' up and findin' me gone
but anyway thank you
for I got another song
We had some good times
we never had bad
can you tell that about any other
relationship you had ?
and now these hours will never be gone
I wrote about it passionately
in another song
And if you see me tomorrow
please don't say hello
somebody might see us
and I don't want them to know
and if you think hell is where I belong
then listen closely to another song
TUNE IN
Golden diadems and ivory pearls
best of perfumes from aroud the world
I will give it all to you
no no I'm neither lying nor trying
to mellow you
Massive statues houses high
lodged in temples that cover the sky
you will be my Nefertari
no no I'm neither swanking nor
cracking up myself
It would be nice to see for real
those certain images revealed
kinda make a dirty deal
the only heart that I can't steal
and I will come if you want me
and only if you want me there with you
Million verses in tongues of gods
written down in my boiling blood
I'll recite them all to you
no I'm not overdrawing
the best is all you get
Locked myself up in this room again
threw my troubles out the door
all the things they will assume again
I guess I heard it all before
and there's only one thing missing
and there's only one thing wrong
All the hugging and the kissing
and the one to whom I belong
the songs we knew that I am whistling
they make the memory so strong
She's the only one I'm missing
she's the one that I've done wrong
would she give me one more chance
or I'll go down under
I am tired of just one dance
I want more as I wonder
After all the things I've done
thought they were just the easy way
would she forgive this callous one
on a lovely sunny day
See a falling angel
making a wish and smile for you
know it's all in vain
she overturned the cradle
bearing no warning signs fearing
no jester's lines from me
We clung together
she tightly held my hand but then
again I scratched
slowly lost her feathers
watching the angel fall watching
her sister's ball on a hedge
and time slowly passing
Lilly and I met in an empty bar
I was in the middle playing my guitar
she claimed to be a friend of a friend
so I gave her my hand
Born as steadfast as she was
there were certain boundaries I had to cross
it was worth it, she always stood for a good time
so I never drew the line
Sweetness, rolling from her eyes
the cause of love that took me by surprise
rivals, never crossed my mind
it's known that love is blind
Lilly and I, we're pretty much the same
that's why it's hard stirring up the flame
attempts result in silly games
bound to entertain
It's nice to express but I better find new means
she is not so keen on musicians so it seems
if necessary until my death I'll wait
cos Lilly she is great
Out of where the pots of gold are found
in hot and soggy ground
there under a ticklish spruce-fir tree
she opened up to me
Paralised exposed to the wonder
three diamond holes into her sleeves
to let her body breathe
eager to get my fingerprints on her
she looked as though they were
Words born to reach and break my glass
pleased my educated guess
age made a difference in the past
but she grew on me so fast
I got rags in my pants from waiting
for the answer
to why oh why you have to leave me now
it's a terrible shock at twelve o'clock
in the changing of the year
ain't that a human reason
not to let it out
You're indispensable so please
treat me like your squirrel
he may run but his ladyboss never will
I do anything to keep me on the rack
with my head burried in your back
is there any wish you want to see fulfilled
I love you more than a neighbour
loves his neighbours
more than a sailor on the land
he loves the sea
more than our king loves his skinny senora
though he wished she'd
bear him children two or three
So long I knew you well
why I go well I can't tell
it's not something that you've done
it's not something that you said
it's much deeper than the well
where down-hearted in I dwell
now I walk away from you
I do what I have to do
and if all your plans fell trough
I'm really sorry
So long I knew you well
where I'm heading I can't tell
I don't mind you following me
I'd even hope that secretly
but if you would let it be
kick him out and set him free
the one you're spending with
reality and myth
and if you let us split
well you'll be sorry
Well I left you a thousand miles behind
those things of the same kind
that were the virtues in my life
Well it's so easy to forget
the way you refused a cigarette
you just kept on dancing all night long
you were dancing but dancing all alone
Well it's so easy to forget
the way you refused a cigarette
the way you early went to bed
Well it's so simple
just take a look around
all the bitter things I found
you just kept on dancing all night long
you were dancing but dancing all alone
Oh here he comes
oh at a blind, mean speed
oh here he comes
there's nothing to hold him
whatever you told him then
Hazy eyes and hair done by the wind
walking on that same footpath again
he's blowing smoke to nothing in the air
now it's time to face whatever's there
Close your window try to lock your door
be certain of the fact that he wants more
he's tired saying pretty little words
take notice of the backtalk you heard
Whatever you told him
there's nothing to hold him now
Wide and lonely
the place we used to go
it now to me is holy
someday you'll never know
as we were in spring
all those hours we would come
and we'd bare our skins
to the warm beams of the sun
Wide and lonely
and never to forget
it now to me is only
a place to clear in my head
just to think
that you and I we didn't care
what people said
when they saw us lying there
Baby strawhair
what have you done to me
that now I still regret
the way I set you free
The ships have all run ashore
ain't got no one for a chat at the door
the sun cannot compete anymore
showed fight for too long
I had to see this before
and I listen close to your song
the companion I was looking for
Sing for me Sandy now sing
like you sang once before
I hung your picture up there
it brightens up all the white everywhere
with a cigarette loose in your hand
like you talk to a friend
like someone who cares
and I listen to your song
and it makes me feel less alone
Sing for me Sandy now sing
sing me back home
Outside the lights all turned out
forced up the fear
with the darkness in here
from my window staring at you
you picture my mind
like thoughts often do
and I listen close to your song
and it's all I want this time
Sing for me Sandy now sing
as you sing words so fine
Waiting for the bus at eight
on loving grounds
catch the bus at nine
and still on loving grounds
I could wait forever
an hour or a day
you got me under
but in a lovely way
Walk the streets at ten
it's what I got to do
walk the streets at half past ten
still I long for you
I could walk forever
See you place appearing
another hundred steps
tired but relieved
I rang the bell
There's motion on the water
and there's a bloodhound loose
he's tracking down a bleeding swan
he's sent by Mannie a goose
Hidden deep on the thriving shore
the swan is checking his wounds
along comes Missy Kundry
singing familiar tunes
The swan looks up and he calls her
a desperate act to be saved
but only shows the bloodhound
dragging the swan to his grave
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