Stan Ridgway - Man Of Stone lyrics

It could have been a million years ago or maybe yesterday I crawled out of this wilderness, a debt i had to pay I must have tipped the scales somewhere way back Never saw the seeds i'd sewn So now i travel backwards looking for a man of stone A foggy night, a neon light... i've seen him standing there Movin' where the shadows creep And one night i almost got him, but i knew you'd tapped my phone And communication is dangerous, lookin' for a man of stone With juan in argentina i thought i saw him in the street In a seaplane over hydra he sat in the captain's seat And i've chased him from the colosseum down the spanish steps in rome And history just gets hazy lookin' for a man of stone In the mornin' out your i saw him leanin' on a tree Wearin' a snappy suit of grey and then he motioned to me He pointed with his finger, as if to say my soul he owned But i had sold that long ago to you lookin' for a man of stone Now i sit in this burnt out barn they call the raven's nest Drinkin' bloody monkeys, your name tattooed on my chest Sometimes i think of juan or you And sometimes i don't think of anything but lookin' for (that's right) a man of stone