Columbus Songtext
von Magna Carta

Telephone ringing in my head
Reach out across an unmade bed
You′re smiling in your sleep
That you should stay so deep
And leave me guessing
And I don't know who or where I am
What land I′m in, what time it is
It's a question of degree
And you are here with me
There's no denying


Coffee shops and magazines
I catch your smile
The boulevards are humming
There′s life out on the city streets
Where friends and strangers rarely meet
So many islands, days run into weeks
Time is spinning like a carousel
And I can′t find my way
It seems I have to say
There is no logic

Down
Carry me down
Down
Carry me down

A month ago the freezing rain
Climbed the sky on an eastbound plane
Now the desert's at my door
And the AC′s roar is sounding
Too familiar

So many nights you tasted sweet
Smokey dives out on the street
It's daybreak, kill a yawn
How d′you feel?
The endless cigarettes
And miles beneath the wheels
The empty fields
Small towns passing


Old friends claim you for their own
Strangers steal your heart and soul
For nothing
I cry out for the sky
Empty places, you and I
No-one listening

Down
Carry me down
Down

Answer questions, dodge the fools
Take your counsel from the rain
Steamy nights and broken dreams
The blood stream of our shook-up world
Is flowing

Jesus are you weeping now?
As I have done these mortal times
The well-intentioned wiles of men
Have led us to the mayhem
And the slaughter

Columbus sailed on wooden ships
Across the edges of the world
It was different then
It's not so different now

Down
Carry me down
Down
Carry me down

Carry me
Carry me
Carry me down
Carry me down
Carry me
Carry me
Carry me
Carry me down