Short Tales of the Black Forest (Live at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - December 5, 1980) - Al Di Meola

Here's a song we hope you know Let's have it On a long, lonesome highway East of Omaha Can listen to the engines moanin' out his one note song Think about the woman The girl you knew the night before But your thoughts will soon be wanderin' The way they always do When you're ridin' sixteen hours Nothin' much to do And you don't feel much like ridin' You wish the trip was through And here I am On the road again Here I am Up on the stage Here I go Playin' star again Here I go Turn the page So you walk into this restaurant All strung out from the road And you feel the eyes upon you As you're shakin' off the cold You pretend it doesn't bother you But you just want to explode Yeah, most times you can't hear 'em talk Other times you can, all the same old cliché's "Is it woman? Or is it man?" And you always seem outnumbered You don't dare make your stand Make your stand And here I am On the road again Here I am Up on the stage Here I go Playin' star again Here I go Turn the page Out there in the spotlight You're a million miles away Every ounce of energy You're tryin' give away As the sweat pours out your body Like the music that you play Later in the evenin' As you lie awake in bed With the echoes of the amplifiers ringin' in your head You smoke the day's last cigarette Rememberin' what she said What she said She said here I am On the road again Here I am Up on that stage There you go You're playin' star again There you go Turn that page Here I am On the road again Here I am Up on the stage Here I go Playin' star again There I go There I go Alright, alright, alright, thank you guys How come we don't get a couch? We get these hard, hard stools You see a doctor about that Those guys get chocolate Oh right, oh god (Alex! Alex!) Yeah! You got a coffee table too Wow, everyone does You got snacks, wow Those guys really go all out You got peanuts, okay

By the last breath the fourth winds blow Better raise your ears The sound of hooves knock at your door Lock up your wife and children now It's time to wield the blade For now you've got some company The Horsemen are drawing nearer On leather steeds they ride They've come to take your life On through the dead of night With The Four Horsemen ride Or choose your fate and die OH, YEAH YEAH! You have been dying since the day you were born You know it's all been planned The quartet of deliverance rides A sinner once, a sinner twice No need for confessions now 'Cause now you've got the fight of your life The Horsemen are drawing nearer On leather steeds they ride They've come to take your life On through the dead of night With The Four Horsemen ride Or choose your fate and die OH, YEAH YEAH! Time Has taken its toll on you The lines that crack your face Famine Your body it has torn through Withered in every place Pestilence For what you had to endure And what you have put others through Death Deliverance for you for sure Now there's nothing you can do So gather 'round young warriors now And saddle up your steeds Killing scores with demon swords Now is the death of doers of wrong Swing the judgement hammer down Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat The Horsemen are drawing nearer On leather steeds they ride They've come to take your life On through the dead of night With The Four Horsemen ride Or choose your fate and die OH, YEAH YEAH!

New blood joins this earth And quickly he's subdued Through constant pained disgrace The young boy learns their rules With time the child draws in This whipping boy done wrong Deprived of all his thoughts The young man struggles on and on he's known A vow unto his own That never from this day His will they'll take away What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never be Never see Won't see what might have been What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven They dedicate their lives To running all of his He tries to please them all This bitter man he is Throughout his life the same He's battled constantly This fight he cannot win A tired man they see no longer cares The old man then prepares To die regretfully That old man here is me What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never be Never see Won't see what might have been What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never be Never see Won't see what might have been What I've felt What I've known Never shined through in what I've shown Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven You labeled me I'll label you So I dub thee unforgiven Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven You labeled me I'll label you So I dub thee unforgiven Never free Never me So I dub thee unforgiven