An interesting story and melody, flute, mandolin, plus all the usual suspects.
Music/Lyrics/Singing/Playing/Arranging/Recording: Tom O'Brien
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The irony is, I try not to be a complicated man - but we all are complicated in our way. I want to be a simple, straightforward man whom you can read like an open book. But it doesn't work that way.
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Could you whisper in my ear
How you're so happy?
Can you tell me how it feels
To be in love?
When I held my baby near
I was so happy
Now I'm empty and I fear
I've lost my love
He said, "Listen close to me
I'm a complicated man
In a complicated time
Trying to live as simple as
I can
I'm a convoluted word
In a syncopated rhyme
In a language that I don't
Understand"
Had a meeting with a man
When once I traveled
In a very foreign land
He called my name
And he wondered how my plan
Came so unraveled
Said I didn't understand
Could he explain?
He said, "Listen close to me
I'm a complicated man
In a complicated time
Trying to live as simple as
I can
I'm a convoluted word
In a syncopated rhyme
In a language that I don't
Understand"
He turned black skies
Into colors
Touched my eyes so
I could see
Said he came to
Show me wonders
Said he came to
Set me free
(Chorus)
Had a dream the time had come
When I lay dying
And before me stood someone
I did not know
Had the grace to strike me dumb
To stop my lying
Couldn't ask where he came from
Or where he'd go
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