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The Old Man And The Child

from CAFÉ SOCIETY - Troubadour by Café Society

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Written by Hereward Kaye.

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I try to dance and have to walk, I try to sing and have to hold it.
My love cries hard inside a cage and broken wings cannot control it
I have my heaven and my hell, I know one road and my road only
I am the old man and the child and you should know it can be lonely.

Live my life
On a knife
Well I know you're concerned
But let me live my life by my insanity
And on my own head let it be
Just give me love.

(I meet a wall and try to scale it)
(it's a pointless game and yet I play it)
I watch the world turn round and round, but it's my world too, I'm a human being
No truth or lies behind your eyes, the only truth is what you're seeing.

Why can't we
Simply be?
Well I know you're concerned
But let me live my life by my insanity
And on my own head let it be
Just give me love.

The old man turned unto the child and took his hand and led him slowly
Through the clouds and the stormy seas, to God, creator, one and holy
The child he wept for sunny fields, he wept for love and for tomorrow
And knowing that the child was he, the old man wept for joy and sorrow.

Well I know you're concerned
You have a right to be, you're my brother
But let me live my life by my insanity
And on my own head let it be
Just give me love.


[With thanks to Inbar Grinstein for the transcription]

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from CAFÉ SOCIETY - Troubadour, released September 1, 2023
Lead vocal: Raphael & Hereward / Acoustic gtr: Hereward / Lead gtr: Phil Palmer / Piano: Tom / Bass: Nick South / Drums: Jim Franks / Engineer: Roger Beale / Producer: Ray & Dave Davies

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Hereward Kaye Haywards Heath, UK

Singer/Songwriter, Musical Theatre Composer & Lyricist, Scriptwriter.

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