Sophie Hunger Blues
My brother is a farmer so you ask him what to doThe rain's about to harm you, "build a fence" he says to youSo you build a fence and wonder why you're slowly sinking inAbout the chief commander suggesting you should swimAnd that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear:"It's strange in here"
Now the whole around you is drowning in a floodWhile the military's aiming at the sky that wouldn't stopMy sister is a lawyer so you ask her what to doYour boy's drowned right before you "let me sue" she says to youAnd that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear:"It's strange in here"
Now the whole city's floating gently towards the seaYou're turning to the President: "Ah Sir, don't let this be"He chuckles once and chuckles twice and then begins to shout:"Let's bring them clouds to justice, track em down and smoke em out"And that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear:"It's strange in here"
When I was born I felt a treble in my handAnd in short time it started to expandIt travelled up my arm and settled in my shoulderFrom there it filled my chest and scared my heart and took it overEver since I'm far from sleep I walk the roads at night and weep:"Peace, please!"
Soon after I would shake from head to toeI left my cardboard house in spite of not knowing where to goI thought I might find silence if I'd move at such fast paceSo the shaking would sort of discharge somewhere along the raceBut the more I walked the more I ran the more things got out of handGod damn!
Under these circumstances it was hard to find a jobLet a lone to touch someone so I'd given up the toughtBut then one day I pointed out a figure in the darkShaking just as much as me so I offered him my heartAnd now guess what happened, there was an earthquakeAnd the whole thing fell apart
Once she had a dream from which she never would awakeShe feared that if she'd touch the ground her hands would start to shakeNothing ever fades away her kingdom knows no timeThe kick of any given kick is perfectly designedAnd she can pull it out any time (that's a bit like singin)
The city that she's living in never would insistOn anything of everything, it costs her nothing to existFreedom, freedom freedom, free - chains are in demandWhen there is no necessity in using your own handsWell, maybe that's the reason why they're shaking
Now you're banging on her door asking her to step outside"Come on girl, you must awake, go get yourself a life!"After endless minutes she answers finally: "maybe you know who you areBut still you search for me, craving for the miracles of my uncertainty"
"You have so much, I miss so much, but what you miss is what you have",She saysFrome the outside it's you yelling back: "Oh, don't make me laugh!"When in fact you know she's true. Everything you need out there you needCause it's not you"
"I'll let you part of my dream, if I can be part of yours" Bob Dylan said that"I'll let you part of my dream, if I can be part of your reality"
I said that