Siddhartha Songtext
von Jesse Welles

Over the stone, under the trees
Together we ran with no real plan
Lookin′ to get free, turnin' our mind into desolation
Into a no-man′s land where no man had
Dared the deprivation

I left you, or you left me
Tears were cried
And part of me died
But I knew that I had to leave
And you asked me to stay
I told you I can't
Well, I can't be taught what I ain′t got
So it was down the road I ran

There is a man in a yellow cloak
He knows somethin′ I don't know
What so?


I met a girl
She taught me how to love
She turned me into a man
I forgot who I am
Or I remembered who I was
And I made me a fortune
I staked out a claim
Then I drank all the wine and I rolled all the dice
And I pissed it all away

And I went to the river to drown
But somethin′ in my head, said, "Yer no good dead
Why don't you jus′ lay down?"
And when I awoke, I saw my old friend
But old friends don't change
They jus′ get more the same
And he went down the road again

There is a man in a yellow cloak
Good for him, t's getting cold

I had me a son
His mother died
She got bit by a snake
And it slithered away
But I tried to raise him right
But the boy ran off, bitterly I wept
Well, I looked up and down, all around the town
Can nothing here be kept?

There is a man in a yellow cloak
I know something he don't know


Do you want to know a secret?
Do you want to know the truth?
The river is laughing
And we′re only passing
Through

I said "Ferryman, what is time?"
He said, "There′s no such thing
Just listen to the stream"
So I did and he said "goodbye"
And my old friend came
And he kissed my head
He saw all gods and men die and live again
I guess we're never really dead

There is a man in a yellow cloak
And there ain′t nothing left to know

Do you want to know a secret?
Do you want to know the truth?
The river is laughing
And we're only passing
Through