| when I saw you in the garden of Gethsemanie | |
| drunk when you realized the plan | |
| you fell into the arms of Mary Magdalene | |
| stain of stigmata on your hands | |
| when the sky fell down on Calvary | |
| I saw the light shining in your eyes, yeah | |
| 'cause you and me baby | |
| we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah, | |
| yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah | |
| and then we followed behind the sisters to La Hagera | |
| saw Ramos kiss like a Judas on the wire | |
| when they cut his hair and they laid him out like Jesus | |
| I know October sixty-seven John Lennon lied | |
| Seargent Pepper could not help us, no | |
| when the flowers died, I realized, yeah | |
| that you and me baby | |
| we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah | |
| yeah now, and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah | |
| Oh I don't hear it now, yeah | |
| and in twenty-one twenty-nine we gonna meet in a cantina in Carletta | |
| I'm gonna put Bessie Smith on the jukebox all night long | |
| when the Spanish sun comes up on our empty cups | |
| I'm gonna take you dancin deep down into the dawn | |
| and one bright mornin when we meet Saint peter, yeah | |
| I ain't gonna give a damn if he dont let us in | |
| 'cause you and me baby | |
| we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah | |
| yeah now, | |
| and I know it sounds crazy,but we got ten thousand more to go, yeah | |
| Robert Johnson knew your name | |
| short for Billy Holiday | |
| put the barricades in nineteen sixty eight | |
| 'cause you knew the man who shot JFK | |
| Lenin gonna love it | |
| Lord I heard the news | |
| just the Basilicas fear the Jews | |
| there will be another curse on the passage of guilt | |
| Steve Lawrence sang the blues, yeah | |
| you and me baby | |
| we were born ten thousand years ago, yeah | |
| yeah now, | |
| and I know it sounds crazy, but we got ten thousand more to go | |
| I don't hear it now, yeah |