Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Man In The Long Black Coat, artist - Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Date of issue: 26.09.1994
Song language: English
Man In The Long Black Coat |
Crickets are chirpin' the water is high |
There’s a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry |
Window wide open African trees |
Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze |
Not a word of goodbye not even a note |
She gone with the man in the long black coat. |
Somebody seen him hangin' around |
As the old dance hall on the outskirts of town |
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask |
If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask |
Somebody said from the bible he’d quote |
There was dust on the man in the long black coat. |
Preacher was talking there’s a sermon he gave |
He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved |
You cannot depend on it to be your guide |
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied |
It ain’t easy to swallow it sticks in the throat |
She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat. |
There are no mistakes in life some people say |
It is true sometimes you can see it that way |
But people don’t live or die people just float |
She went with the man in the long black coat. |
There’s smoke on the water it’s been there since June |
Tree trunks unprooted beneath the high crescent moon |
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force |
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse |
She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote |
She gone with the man in the long black coat. |