I'm a long way from my homeI was born on the raging seaAnd when I first struck land,With my head in handI built a house out of an old oak treeAnd raised a family out of earth and electricityI was king of my domainBut my fortitude had proved in vainAnd when the locusts cameLike a summer rainDevouring everything that I held dearAnd all I'd worked for simply disappearedSo I crept awayFor I had debts to payAnd joined the army as a privateerYeah, it was then, the wind it whisperedBut I would not hearSo we sailed out across the landThrough an ocean made of sinking sandAnd though I lost my men,I was born againAs a tailor in an unknown landWith a needle and some thread in handMending suits and slacks,Stitching up the cracksIn the backs of my neighbors’ headsAnd soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the townSo before the king I stoodI said, “I come from the raging seaAnd if the truth be told,I am not so oldAs you may first have taken me to beFor numbers never could apply to meFor I’m as old as time,And maybe half as blindWhat some of you might call infinityI am the tailor of the earth and electricity.”
Lyrics by Blitzen Trapper
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