madman
Verse 1 There’s a man on the corner with a newspaper crown, talking to angels as the rain comes down. He says the moon’s got wires and the stars all bleed, and the city’s just a dog with a chain it don’t need. He laughs at the traffic, he cries at the light, says the dead take buses through the middle of the night. Everybody walks by with their eyes on their shoes, but he sees the future in a puddle of blues. Chorus Oh, madman, madman, what do you know? You see the river where the hard streets flow. You see the fire underneath the snow, you see what nobody sees. Verse 2 He had a name once, maybe Joseph or John, maybe he left it where the saints have gone. He had a lover with a cigarette voice, she said, “You can be free, but you don’t get a choice.” Now he writes down sermons on a ten-dollar bill, says God got tired and the devil got still. He points to the window of the old drugstore, says, “There’s a door in the glass, but it ain’t a door.” Chorus Oh, ma...