The Tailor

	I'm a long way from my home
	I was born on the raging sea
	And when I first struck land,
	With my head in hand
	I built a house out of an old oak tree
	And raised a family out of earth and electricity
	I was king of my domain
	But my fortitude had proved in vain
	And when the locusts came
	Like a summer rain
	Devouring everything that
	I held dear
	And all I'd worked for simply disappeared
	So I crept away
	For I had debts to pay
	And joined the army as a privateer
	Yeah, it was then, the wind it whispered
	But I would not hear
	So we sailed out across the land
	Through an ocean made of sinking sand
	And though
	I lost my men,
	I was born again
	As a tailor in an unknown land
	With a needle and some thread in hand
	Mending suits and slacks,
	Stitching up the cracks
	In the backs of my neighbors’ heads
	And soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the town
	So before the king
	I stoodI said, “
	I come from the raging sea
	And if the truth be told,
	I am not so old
	As you may first have taken me to be
	For numbers never could apply to me
	For I’m as old as time,
	And maybe half as blind
	What some of you might call infinity
	I am the tailor of the earth and electricity.”-->

	I' m a long way from my home
	I was born on the raging sea
	And when I first struck land,
	With my head in hand
	I built a house out of an old oak tree
	And raised a family out of earth and electricity
	I was king of my domain
	But my fortitude had proved in vain
	And when the locusts came
	Like a summer rain
	Devouring everything that
	I held dear
	And all I' d worked for simply disappeared
	So I crept away
	For I had debts to pay
	And joined the army as a privateer
	Yeah, it was then, the wind it whispered
	But I would not hear
	So we sailed out across the land
	Through an ocean made of sinking sand
	And though
	I lost my men,
	I was born again
	As a tailor in an unknown land
	With a needle and some thread in hand
	Mending suits and slacks,
	Stitching up the cracks
	In the backs of my neighbors' heads
	And soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the town
	So before the king
	I stoodI said, "
	I come from the raging sea
	And if the truth be told,
	I am not so old
	As you may first have taken me to be
	For numbers never could apply to me
	For I' m as old as time,
	And maybe half as blind
	What some of you might call infinity
	I am the tailor of the earth and electricity."