GStanding on Bmthe water, casting your bread
While the eCyes of the idol wiDth the iron heaGd are G/CglowingG 
GDistant shipBms sailing into the mist
You were bCorn with a snDake in both of your fists
While a hurricaGne waG/Cs blowinGg

FAmreedomD, just around the Gcorner for you
But with Amtruth sDo far off, whGat goCod will it do?


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JoDkerman, daCnce to the nightingale tune
GBird fly D/F#high by the lEmight of the moon
COh, oh-oh-Doh, JGokermanG/C      G 

So swiftly the sun sets in the sky, you rise up and say goodbye to no-one
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Both of their futures so full of dread you don't show one
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within

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You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister
You're going to Sodom & Gomorrah, but what do you care
Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame
You look into the fiery furnace
See the rich man without any name

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Well the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teacher
In the smoke of the twilight, on a milk white steed
Michaelangelo, indeed, could have carved out your features
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space
Half asleep 'neath the stars with a small dog licking your face

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Well the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame
Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain
Nightsticks, water cannons, teargas, padlocks
Molotov Cocktails and rocks behind every curtain
False-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time, till night comes steppin' in

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It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey,
A woman just gave birth to a Prince today and dressed him in scarlet
He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat
Take the motherless children off the street
And place them at the feet of a harlot
Oh Jokerman, you know what he wants
Oh Jokerman, you don't show any response

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