Letra de Decade and One
Once, when I was thirty-one I woke in the dead of night And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside Slipped downstairs in my bare feet Soon forgotten freezing And poured a milk glass full To wait out the tideBeen a decade and one Been a decade and one, my friends A decade and one Since I...As the white went down I thought of the child upstairs I thought of the God upstairs That I couldn't believe I thought of the chosen man Asleep on his side of the bed How green becomes wood In a family treeDecade and one Been a decade and one, so soon A decade and one Since I stood So proud And so unsureEbony glowing by the window there As always Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly Cool ivory returned in kind I thought of anger and adulation And the taste of dreams realized And the waste dreams realized leave behindDecade and one A decade and one I said out loudA decade and one And I am here And I am here, still standing