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Room 211 – The Bard of Hibbing by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) from their forthcoming album The Chelsea Hotel.
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Room 211 – The Bard of Hibbing
From Japanese warriors, to sparrows that fall
In your lifetime, you’ve written about them all
Like Shakespeare of old you borrow as you write
When you’ve got away with it, did it feel alright?
But I guess you are really not to blame
If a child steals sweets then he’ll do it again and again
Do you think no-one knows what you do
Or they say ‘it’s okay,’ just because it’s you
There’s been monkey’s on your back most of the time
Are the demons still following you to the end of the line
No-one is perfect or so they say
Even The Man Himself had his bad off days
Hey there the Iron Bard of Hibbing
May you always be on the side that’s winning
Hey there the Bard of Hibbing
May you live forever, God willing!
You saw that the horsemen and all the kingsmen
Couldn’t put humanity back together again
Is it too late to turn back the clock
Or are all the doors forever locked?
You did what you did, you can’t deny
You led us on with Joe’s pie in the sky
You reached the poor deep down with your blues
But they still went away barefoot and without shoes
I met the doctor and he tried not to tell
About the dulcet tones of those Methodist Bells
Some pearls you can hide and some you cannot
Went around the globe and they sank your yacht
Hey there the Bard of Hibbing
May you always be on the side that’s winning
Hey there the Bard of Hibbing
May you live forever, God willing!
There are very few morals in this game
On that journey to fortune and fame
You arrived at the Station but they cancelled the train
And you were left standing in the rain
We’ve all done things wished we hadn’t have done
They demand ‘show us something new under the sun’
You say ‘don’t look back’ as memories fade
And ‘beyond here lies nothing’ beyond the grave
In Room 221 at New York’s Hotel Chelsea
You wrote your Blonde On Blonde rhapsody
You’d never again write like you did back then
It was like a spirit was guiding your pen
There’s only so many chords that you can play
Trying to be original is hard they say
If you steal lots they make you king
Oh My Sweet Lord, He’s So Fine, sing
Hey don’t go away iron Bard of Hibbing
We’ve been together since the very beginning
And though all this you might not be a-digging
Don’t take it serious coz I’m just a-kidding
I’m just kidding
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 637534CQ
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