Song Description

A man of light and mystery frightens the populace, who put him to death, and then laud his memory.

Lyrics

Man of the Shadows

Cry like a beast in the wild moaning
song for the tree and the heart to hear
cry in the night where the dead lie groaning,
song for the heart of the deadened ear
Called to the man by the town hall bell
we gather in the square with our guns and fright
led by the dogs down the moon-pale hill
we track him down by the river in the night
like the leeches in the reedy stream
we grace his skin and we bleed him clean

The people they walk and the people they talk
and they work all day in the foundry
the man is a shadow in the full daylight and he speaks of a shadow where the night can see
The people they say and the people they know
he sell his soul to the devil for an eye
the man he reap what the man he sew
and now by the reedy stream he lie
sun breaks hard on hi s bloodied robe
We pray to the Lord that He spare his soul

The people they wake and the people they cry
and the sun breaks hard on the foundry
the man of the shadow is a sign in the sky
and the people they sing of his memory
?He come like a light in the middle of a dream
stand so clear like an ancient tree
we track hi down by the waters of the stream
and see him glow in his mystery
sun breaks hard on his bloodied robe
We pray to the Lord that He spare our souls?