"Siddhartha" lyrics
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
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
