Album : SongBook Vol.4 - Roses  (piste 10)
Durée : 3:55

Crédits

Nik Kershaw
© 1984 Imagem Music 

Paroles

I've got two strong arms
Blessings of babylon
With time to carry on and try
For sins and false alarms
So do America the brave
Wise men save

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

I got plans for us
Nights in the scullery
And days instead of me
I only know what to discuss
Of for anything but light
Wise men fighting over you

It's not me you see
Pieces of Valentine
With just a song of mine
To keep from burning history
Seasons of gasoline and gold
Wise men fold

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

I got time to kill
Sly looks in corridors
Without a plan of yours
A blackbird sings on bluebird hill
Thanks to the calling of the wild
Wise men child

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

But he'll never, never fight over you

Notes

• Reprise du titre The Riddle du chanteur anglais Nik Kershaw. La chanson figurait sur le deuxième album de Nik Kershaw publié en 1984, album également intitulé The Riddle.

Signification 

"Voici une version très celte du titre The Riddle du chanteur et compositeur anglais Nik Kershaw. J'ai toujours eu un faible pour cette chanson aux paroles plutôt ésotériques et à la mélodie entêtante..." (Cécile Corbel, livret de l'album)