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the sheikhs - johnny handsome lyrics

having served as i have served
these dark working hands
a part of his every success
and am i not man enough
for my words to be heard
let the king’s golden ears
listen closely as i list
my handsomest favours

and my request for recompense
and my request for recompense
am i unseen by yr clean hands
unacknowledged yet in this land

i am the fish leaping out of the water
i am the stranger dark and tall (in this hall)
will people talk of me only in the past tense
will people talk of me at all
don’t see my shaking body
but let the ache on your tongue be
there goes johnny handsome
saying i can’t afford that handsomest one
shaking body
ache on your tongue
there goes johnny handsome
saying i can’t afford that handsomest one
now write this down
(2nd) should i just accept their price
someone else’s name for you
or carve out your own story
and leap into the deep blue freedom

i cultivate this heathen ground
into the food of home
carried a water+walking saviour
on sails and wood and rope
i held tight your boy’s olive hand
all through his bl++dy growth
dark hands mine never held pen
but steadied his to their goal

cut into three aztec kings necks
inferiors must pay respects
come achilles now hernan sends
feliz it’s known how that story ends

fighting for him so long now i surrender
i give to you these building hands
you filled me up like a familiar story
hold me steady in this spinning land
you wrestled me away from the giants
peeling the gold and silver from mine eyes
lifting this broken instrument out of silence
finally all the bl++dy pain fades and i feel clean
i watch these handsome children now grow up free
what i don’t know now give them eyes to see
and i hear a foreign sound escape from me
now write this down

- the sheikhs lyrics

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