High Country
There's a girl who lives in the high countr
Where the willows do not wee
And the rain falls softly and gentl
And does not disturb her slee
There's a girl who lives in the high countr
Who lives on tea and dream
And I know that she does not love m
But she plays the game so wel
"Sit by my side and tell me bo
Is the Milky Way that far? Is the universe really expanding
Tell me who you are?"
I am a bondsman - a poor ma
I am a ghettoman - I am a thie
Who saw the gutterman who has no compassio
Who heard the widow who cannot wee
In the backstreets, in the poor town
I hear a thunder which cannot rol
Mine are the eyes that steal from the orphanag
A groveller, groping in the grim
Inside is a Congo-jungle-beast-lion-leopard-ma
A tiger-man from Timbukt
Even a lover-man strutting down the avenu
A winding river searching for the sea..
And she said that she understood m
She thought I was complex and sensitiv
"Here" she said, "hold my hand
And have a muffin!"
"Do you see the clouds boy
Do you see the ship
Do you see the duck
Do you love me?"
Brick by brick the empire is crumblin
Stone by stone it cracks and fold
Dreams of phantoms plotting in the jungl
Vengeance in the elephant gras
Someone's been at the liquor cabine
She's sure someone's been wearing her shoe
All around her chaos and anarch
Light and reason overthrow
"I'm sure" she says, "they will attack the embassy
Take me home, take me home!"
There's a wind that blows through the high countr
Where the mansion used to stan
And it blows through the broken down garde
Where she once held my hand
La, la, la, la...
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