Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Skin of a Drum, artist - Saul Williams. Album song The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 07.07.2008
Record label: FADER Label
Song language: English
Skin of a Drum |
And I can’t become my father when it’s all been said and done |
His completions won’t complete me |
I’ve divided me by one, I’m the answer to his riddle |
I’m the caution of his wind |
I’m the spoon wedged between tongue and teeth beneath his trembling grin |
And I dare add my revision for I dare not suffer twice and I dare not reinvent |
the past |
And I dare not be the Christ and I welcome any sufferer |
And I welcome any Saul |
Sitting in this room, on wooden bench, waiting for Joi to call |
And I suffer here alone, Lord |
Perturbed by my every thought |
How I’ve tried to strip them to the bone I’ve struggled and I’ve fought |
Every jealous warped intention, smuggled, sewn into genes |
Every hidden mongrel tendency exploiting me in me |
Each time I put them under but still they wanna test me |
I cry out through the thunder. |
You storm right past me. |
I search and I ponder. |
I question and wonder… I roar and I thunder, please, let me in |
I’ve been waiting here for what now seems the better of an hour |
I’ve raised every crippled question from the dead and given power to the |
absence of my sanity |
The presence of a fear that lies in between forgotten dreams that pile up every |
year |
Up above the highest testaments, down below the wooden floor |
There’s a gutted room, pitch black at noon, beneath a hidden door |
Deep within, you’ll find the attributes of every sunken man |
Who must bang his head against the dead each day he tries to stand |
And he’s standing pressed against the very woman that he loves |
Kissing eyes and lips, embracing hips, surrendering to her touch |
And just at the very moment that he touches heart to heart |
She pulls from his touch, cause it’s too much to mend what’s torn apart |
Each time I put them under but still they wanna test me |
I cry out through the thunder. |
You storm right past me. |
I search and I ponder |
I question and wonder… I roar and I thunder, please, let me in |
It’s so hard to be the man I would be if hatred and fear no longer appeared |
I swear I’ve become the skin of a drum, the heart of a man, divided I stand |