David Knopfler - The Sentenced Man lyrics

Dreaming into darkness God makes other plans Down here there's no salvation By these almighty hands His only sound is silence d**h defiles the land I stand just East of Eden And I play the sentenced man. There'll come a time in the white man's reign When warriors of the rainbow, ride again Deeds be legend, the dream must end Let the land of our fathers be green Be green again, for the sentenced man. Between the d**h of life And a life of d**h I walk beneath the stars Between wakefulness and sleeping lie A billion unplayed bars. There will always be this showdown Unworthy as I am I fire this empty chamber For every sentenced man. I follow from the mountain And let his music speak Like waters from the fountain His song did make me weep, weep, weep There was nothing that I could say then I laid me down to sleep. I was lost upon the way then When currents ran too deep And I prayed my soul to keep. But who cries now, the ghosts are gone Who gives a tinkers damn. Bruised limbs, hung up like monuments Bowls and empty hands. White dust blown across a wilderness Where mighty oceans ran Sand turned gla** for eternity Turn those keys for eternity They say there's no release from eternity But I know who I am Yes I know what I am And I play the sentenced man. It was only love which bound us Held us to our parts Now these fortresses surround us All must break upon such desperate hearts There was no place left to turn to No place left to run The hurting always leaves its scar And the hutting's just begun. The hutting's just begun -