he came to the light of the sun in 55 a time when a man would look you in the eye and now he lay by the lady who he gave his name through the winds of the winter and the summer rain but alive in the only way it really means to be now come on black rider wont you ride along with me he came to the people in the year i came to be and sang hallelujah til he sank into the sea and now he lay in a corner where nobody knows where the graces will follow anywhere he goes and alive in the only way it really means to be now come on holy writer wont you sing along with me see theres a hurry that dont wait up for the fool whos taking time and theres a fury that dont let up for the ruler in the sky and theres something i dont quite understand theres something about the song of a dead man its strange how the living dont seem to live at all a ghost has a way of making all of this seem small and now i lay in the shadow of the ones who shown like a flame in the night of long ago but alive with a heart beat beating away indeed now come on versifier dont you put that fire on me come on versifier dont you put that fire on me see theres a hurry that dont wait up for the fool whos taking time and theres a fury that dont let up for the ruler in the sky and theres something i dont quite understand theres something about the song of a dead man where did you go above or below maybe between whatever that means theres a hurry that dont wait up for the fool whos taking time theres a fury that dont let up for the ruler in the sky and theres something i dont quite understand theres something about the song of a dead man