Broad Waters Songtext
von Sweet Liberties

Didn′t you see him there
With his hand up in the air?
Didn't you see him there, didn′t you?
Wasn't he pleased and proud
Of that mess there on the ground?
Didn't you find him proud, didn′t you?

I don′t know what I saw
It was dark, I couldn't be sure

Oh, don′t be shy, boy
There's no need to lie
I can see it in your eye, boy, you know
He′s already told me
And he's never going free
He′s already told me, you know

I said, I don't know what I saw
It was dark, I couldn't be sure


He′s a beast, not a man
With a hammer in his hand
Isn′t he leader of the gang, isn't he?
Isn′t he blacker than black?
And didn't he pat you on the back
When you joined his little pack, didn′t he?

I only saw a heap on the floor
Beneath fifty men or more

Doesn't he look a bit like you?
Doesn′t he talk like you do?
Don't you even wear the same size shoe?

So if we can't get this right
If he wasn′t there that night
Maybe it was someone else′s fight

Now I'm not making claims, boy
No, that′s not what I'm saying
It′s just someone's got to lose this little game

So if he wasn′t there
If he really wasn't there
Maybe it was your hand in the air

I told you I can't be sure
There were fifty men or more
And I was looking through a half-closed door
But maybe, maybe, maybe it was him that I saw


The waters here are broad
And I cannot get near them
There′s people on the other side
Laughing in the light
And they think we cannot hear them
How I wish I could not hear them