The Sentenced Man - David Knopfler

Dreaming into darkness

God makes other plans

Down here there’s no salvation

By these almighty hands

His only sound is silence

Death defiles the land

I stand just East of Eden

And I play the sentenced man

There’ll come a time in the white man’s reign

When warriors of the rainbow, ride again

Deeds be legend, the dream must end

Let the land of our fathers be green

Be green again, for the sentenced man

Between the death of life

And a life of death

I walk beneath the stars

Between wakefulness and sleeping lie

A billion unplayed bars

There will always be this showdown

Unworthy as I am

I fire this empty chamber

For every sentenced man

I follow from the mountain

And let his music speak

Like waters from the fountain

His song did make me weep, weep, weep

There was nothing that I could say then

I laid me down to sleep

I was lost upon the way then

When currents ran too deep

And I prayed my soul to keep

But who cries now, the ghosts are gone

Who gives a tinkers damn

Bruised limbs, hung up like monuments

Bowls and empty hands

White dust blown across a wilderness

Where mighty oceans ran

Sand turned glass for eternity

Turn those keys for eternity

They say there’s no release from eternity

But I know who I am

Yes I know what I am

And I play the sentenced man

It was only love which bound us

Held us to our parts

Now these fortresses surround us

All must break upon such desperate hearts

There was no place left to turn to

No place left to run

The hurting always leaves its scar

And the hurting’s just begun

The hurting’s just begun