Cry Cry Cry

You've been taken by the wind
You have known the kiss of sorrows
Doors that would not take you in
Outcast and a stranger
You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears
But you'll reach your destiny meant to find you all these years
Meant to find you all these years
You have drunk a bitter wine with none to be your comfort
You who once were left behind will be welcome at love's tables
You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears
But you'll reach your destiny
Meant to find you all these years
Meant to find you all these years

You will one day come to know
You will one day come to know
All the nights that joy has slept will awake to days of laughter
Eone the tears that you have wept
You'll dance in freedom ever after
You have come by way of sorrow you have come by way of tears
But you'll reach your destiny
Meant to find you all these years
Meant to find you all these years

He don't know how to lie or undermine you

He don't know how to steal how to deal or decieve

So leave him alone set him free

Cause he's speaking with the angel

Speaking with the angel that only he can see

You say he's so helpless but what about you

You don't pull the strings don't you know anything

Leave him alone let him be

Cause he's speaking with the angel

Speaking with the angel that only he can see

Would you teach him about heaven

Would you show him how to love the earth


Would you poison him with prejudice from the moment of his birth

SOLO

He in the name of love in the blood of the lamb

He that never lays the blame

He don't even know his name

Leave him alone set him free

Cause he's speaking with the angel

Speaking with the angel

The very one that spoke to you and me

Do you remember

I'm the kid who ran away with the circus
Now I'm watering elephants
But sometimes I lie awake in the sawdust
Dreaming I'm in a suit of light
Late at night in the empty big top I'm
All alone on the high wire
Look, he's working without a net this time
He's a real death-daffier

I'm the kid who always looked out the window
Failing tests in geography
But I've seen things far beyond just the schoolyard
Distant shores of exotic lands
They're the spires of the Turkish empire
It's six months since we made landfall
Riding love with the spice of India
Through Gibraltar, we're rich men all

I'm the kid who thought we'd someday be lovers
Always held out that time would tell
Time was talking, I guess I just wasn't listening
No surprise if you know me well
And as we're walking toward the train station
There's a whispering rainfall
'Cross the boulevard you slip your hand in mine
In the distance the train calls

I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming
Sometimes gets me in trouble too
But the truth is I could no more stop dreaming
Than I could make them all come true

My name is Dodge but then you know that


It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the of the bed

They think I'm blind that I can't read it
I've read it every word and every word it says is death
So confession Is that the reason that you came


Get it off my chest before I check out of the game
Since you mention it well there's thirteen things I'll name
Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
August 49 North Montana

The hottest day on record the forest tinder dry

Lightning strikes in the mountains
I was crew chief at the jump base
I prepared the boys to fly

Pick the drop zone C47 comes in low
Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go
See the circle of the fire down below

Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters

Gauged the fire I'd seen bigger

So I ordered them to side hill we'd fight it from below

We'd have our backs to the river

We'd have it licked by morning even if we took it slow

But the fire crowned jumped the valley just ahead

There was no way down headed for the ridge instead

Too big to fight it we'd have to fight that slope instead

Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters
Sky had turned red smoke was boiling

Two hundred yards to saftey

Death was fifty yards behind

I don't know why I just thought it

I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time

Tried to tell them step into this fire I've set

We can't make it this is the only chance you'll get

But they cursed me

Ran for the rocks above instead

I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters

Then when I rose like the phoenix

In that world reduced to ashes

There was none but two survived

I stayed that night and one day after

Carried bodies to the river

Wondering how I stayed alive
Thirteen stations of the cross to mark their fall

I've had my say I'll confess to nothing more

I'll join them now those that they left me long before

Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters