Siddhartha

over the stone
under the trees
together we ran
with no real plan
lookin to get free
turnin our mind
into desolation
into a no-man's land
where no man had
dared the deprivation

and i left you
or you left me
tears were cried
and part of me died
but i knew that i had to leave
and you asked me to stay
i told you I can't
well i can't be taught
what i ain't got
so it was down the road I ran

there is a man in a yellow cloak
he knows somethin i don't know
what so?

i met a girl
she taught me how to love
she turned me into a man
i forgot who I am
or i remembered who I was
and i made me a fortune
i staked out a claim
then i drank all the wine
and i rolled all the dice
and i pissed it all away

and i went to the river
to drown
but somethin in my head
said yer no good dead
why don't you jus lay down
and when I awoke
i saw my old friend
but old friends don't change
they jus get more the same
and he went down the road again

there is a man in a yellow cloak
good for him
it's getting cold

i had me a son
his mother died
she got bit by a snake
and it slithered away
but i tried to raise him right
but the boy ran off
bitterly I wept
well i looked up and down
around the town
can nothing here be kept?

there is a man in a yellow cloak
i know something he don't know

do you want to know a secret
do you want to know the truth
the river is laughing
and we're only passing
through

i said: ferryman
what is time
he said there's no such thing
listen to the stream
so i did and he said goodbye
and my old friend came
and he kissed my head
he saw all gods and men
die and live again
i guess we're never really dead

there is a man in a yellow cloak
there ain't nothing left to know

do you want to know a secret
do you want to know the truth
the river is laughing
and we're only passing
through