back from the city
Said, "'Cause where you been?"
Says brother I've been living on the wire
Lived down in that gutter
where the fittest survive
Plowed through them fields of fire
Had a needle in a vein
that profited the same
Had a friend with no name
who was a liar
Saw the white walls of freedom,
never found the black door
Saw the devil sing with angels
in a quiet cistern
We'll take you to the land we know
Give you that peace of the evening
Give you that moon
with the wind on your face
The rains and the change of each season
Saw people who were trapped
under the whip of fat cats
Saw people there devoid of their dreaming
But deep down inside
there's so much to hide,
You can see it in their eyes,
there's no meaning
So take me my sisters
and welcome me home
So I never again walk alone
My spirit demands
that we die in this land
And I know now my spir
it's come home
Sister
We'll take you home to
the land we know
Give you that peace of the evening
Give you that love
with the wind on your face
The rains and the change of each season
He says, brother,
what you see
in this land of progress
He says,
I never felt them four winds a -blowin'
Live with people in chains,
they're wounded and lame
Heard me sighs just fall without knowin'
And then the seven seas rose,
and the desert lands froze
Each individual there was
trapped in a prison
And the spirit cried out
to know what it's all about, brother
The basses had no rhyme
and no reason,
We'll take you home to
the land we know
Give you that peace of being
Give you that youth
with the wind on your face
The rains and the change of each season
I came back from the city
Said, "'Cause where
you been?"
Brother, I've been living on the wire