Arthur Lee
Gonna spend ten years in the penitentiary
Remembering
Being free
And the price you pay for that bit of truth you see
Eventually

And a child of God will come to own a gun
And the night will fall on canyons full of sun
Now he shares a cell with Mister Parkinson
But I'll be one
Who still remembers

Arthur Lee
And the broken flowerpot on the record sleeve
He set the scene
Farther he
Treaded on the precipice of his sanity
Than you or me

And became a tightrope walker of the soul
And his diamond eyes did slowly turn to coal
And when in the end he finally lost control
To a little hole
They dragged and shackled
Arthur Lee

And a child of God will come to own a gun
And the night will steal my brothers from their sun
And a willow will weep when the day is done
For knowing one
Of the broken poets
Arthur Lee

[Music and lyrics copyright 1996 by Jeff Rosenberg]

Arthur Lee

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