Faces - First Step (1993) by Faces (보컬) on maniadb.com

There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter

When questioned who had sent for him
He answered with a thumb
For his tongue it could not speak
But only flatter

He stayed behind the assembly hall
It was there that he made his bed
Often times he could be seen returning
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read

So good to be with
the people that know you.
It's good to hear
the things that they say,
At times when you are with them.
So good to note
my strength is growing from day to day,
There's not a thing
I try to do without you

Troubled times of pain that come
I take them any old day.
You come and you wash them all away

Everywhere you sing in everything,
and I try by remembering
all the things that you said to me,
from within all you did for me.
Just one word.

Once I was a stone many years ago
Into a pool was thrown many years ago.
Time passed by, the pool ran dry, excavated was I.
And tempered and beat in a fiery heat,
By the hand of a man, who's name was Dan
Dan the blacksmith.

Once I was a sword, many years ago.
And my blade was broad, many years ago.
Worn with pride, into battle I'd ride at a warrior's side.
And I cut and I killed and was lost in a field,
And I soon did rust, corrode to dust,
Oh my.

Once I was a daisy, many years ago.
In pastures green and lazy, many years ago.
But I was et by a goat who fell in a moat and forgetting to float
He sunk like a lead and stayed until dead,
But was relieved to find just how kind it all was.

Once I was a grub, many years ago.
I lived in muck and mud, many years ago.
But on the very first noon I became a cocoon that resembled a prune.
When the Good Lord was done in the warmth of the sun.
I shed my skins, and dried my wings, and I flew away.

Once I was a bullfrog, had to struggle for survival.
And once I was a carp and lived in waters ornamental.
And once I was a myna bird, quoting verses from the Bible,
Said

Woken up on mornings such as this
Thought exactly the same as I'm thinking now
Every night for a year I've slept alone
Cold, damp room looks worse than me, no, no, no

Got a fear of death that creeps on every night
I know I won't die soon, but then again I might
Water down the drain, I'm wasting away
Doctors can't help the ghost of a man that's me, no, no, no

Water down the drain goes to the sea
The pattern of my life keeps a-haunting me
Moisture from the ocean fills the sky
Come on down to the ground as the time goes by

Slow down there

I never found out the reason why
My parents had to lie
About the place that I was born
Or from my hometown I was torn
At the tender age of four
I was livin' by homemade law

I never knew when it was to be laid,
My desires are never displayed,
I never knew what it was to be loved,
I never knew what it was to be laid,
I never knew what it was to win,
I never knew what it was to be loved,
No, no, no

Get on up there

I never knew what it was to be laid
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

I'm flying
Across the ocean
And I'm soaring
Back home
To the place I was born
And probably raised.
And I'm flying
Across the mountains and valleys,
Back home to the one that I love so happily.

Can ya blame me for feeling homesick
'Cause I've been away such a very long long time
I served a while in the county jail
Five years for being hungry tired and poor

On and on
Yes I will follow
With your buttons and bows.

I'm waiting here in patience
Am I waiting all in vain?
Will I see you? Will I touch you?
Will I hear you call my name?
Come and make
Ten steps to every one step that I take

Nobody comes and nobody goes,
No one is happy, and no one has woes.
Everything lasting, ever the same,
Nothing is ending, nothing can change.

The Good Lord always has been,
Always will be ever the same.
And confusion mixed with illusion
All years only turn again
With one and one hundred names
Had all the rooms, our key is to change.

Nobody comes and nobody goes,
No one is happy and no one has woes,
Everything lasting, nothing can change,
Nothing is ending, ever the same

I don't need no one's opinion
On the matter concerning my dress
I was raised in a clinic down in Oklahoma
There were many things I did not possess
I never complained because my father said
"son, you'll get your chance before you're my age."
Then he took me upstairs and gave me this suit
Written all over his face

He said, "others may come and others may go
But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'."
Three button hand me down
Three button hand me down

I had my fair share of neat women
But they came between me and my suit
That was a filly from Boston, a barmaid from Houston
Not forgetting the one in Detroit
They said, "we like you, boy, and we think you're sweet
But can't you lose your suit?"
I said, "no, you can't do that to me."
I remember what my father said

He said, "others may come and others may go
But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'."
Three button hand me down, ha, ha
Three button hand me down

I've never been a tidy dresser
And the fold in my trousers - it ain't straight
Still, I know a good cloth when I see one
That's why I'm clad in this gray flannel suit
Sometimes I wonder if I should visit a tailor
And get myself a smooth outfit
Then I remember what my father said to me
I'll make you from the open road

He said, "others may come and others may go
But that suit will be around wherever you go."
Three button hand me down
Three button hand me down