2009-08-05

LILT: Alter Mann 1.1

I have the basis for the chorus in now:

He's waiting for the midday wind
The weary waves sprawl on the sand
Every day the old man will
Smooth the water with his fan

I throw a stone in just for fun
The still water uncurls and moves
A jaded look from the old one
As once again he sweeps it smooth

The old man trembles as he smokes
His pipe in the white sand
The water and I both know
Why he needs to have his fan

Like a volcano foresight sleeps
I waver then ask instead
With bowed head he seems to weep
He tells me before his death

The water is your mirror now
When it's smoothed out you will see
If the fairy tale is yours
And you'll cry out for a reprieve

The fan is clutched close to his heart
As the rigor holds his hand
They have to prise his grip apart
The fan stays back on the sand

Each day I cry to be saved
I call out to the old man
I stay out in the midday wind
And then I read from the fan

The water is your mirror now
When it's smoothed out you will see
If the fairy tale is yours
And you'll cry out for a reprieve


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