On Parole / The Bishop - Live

[00:03.46] Freedom is mine
[00:06.42] The earth is still
[00:09.84] I feel the wind
[00:11.95] I breathe again
[00:14.90] And the sky clears
[00:17.52] The world is waking
[00:23.54] Drink from the pool, how clean the taste
[00:29.60] Never forget the years, the waste
[00:34.85] Nor forgive them for what they've done
[00:39.83] They are the guilty, everyone
[00:44.08] The day begins and now let's see
[00:50.12] What this new world will do for me
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[01:09.63] You'll have to go
[01:11.53] I'll pay you off for the day
[01:12.83] Collect your bits and pieces there and be on your way
[01:15.72] You have given me half what the other men get
[01:17.85] This handful of tin wouldn't buy my sweat!
[01:20.08] You broke the law
[01:21.61] It's there for people to see
[01:22.99] Why should you get the same as honest men like me?
[01:28.29] Now I know how freedom feels
[01:31.45] The jailer always at your heels
[01:32.45] It is the law
[01:34.60] This piece of paper in my hand
[01:35.95] It makes me cursed throughout the land
[01:37.51] It is the law
[01:38.60] Like a cur
[01:40.16] I walk the street
[01:43.02] The dirt beneath their feet
[01:48.72] Come in sir, for you are weary
[02:00.14] And the night is cold out there
[02:05.18] Though our lives are very humble
[02:08.85] What we have, we have to share
[02:14.78] There is wine here to revive you
[02:21.05] There is bread to make you strong
[02:26.34] There's a bed to rest till morning
[02:29.79] Rest from pain, and rest from wrong
[02:37.19] He let me eat my fill
[02:41.35] I had the lion's share
[02:44.54] The silver in my hand cost twice what I had earned
[02:48.22] In all those nineteen years, that lifetime of despair
[02:52.44] And yet he trusted me
[02:56.47] The old fool trusted me, he'd done his bit of good
[03:01.26] I played the grateful servant
[03:02.55] Thanked him like I should
[03:05.41] But when the house was still I got up in the night
[03:09.96] Took the silver
[03:12.30] Took my flight!
[03:27.39] Tell His Reverence your story
[03:30.07] Let us see if he's impressed
[03:32.18] You were lodging here last night
[03:33.77] You were the honest bishop's guest
[03:36.33] And then out of Christian goodness
[03:38.02] When he learned about your plight
[03:39.97] You maintain he made a present of this silver -?
[03:43.16] That is right.
[03:46.54] But my friend, you left so early
[03:49.27] Surely something slipped your mind
[03:52.92] You forgot I gave these also
[03:55.36] Would you leave the best behind?
[04:00.98] So monsieur, you may release him
[04:05.96] For this man has spoken true
[04:09.15] I commend you for your duty
[04:12.54] And God's blessing go with you
[04:19.94] But remember this, my brother
[04:26.51] See in this some higher plan
[04:32.49] You must use this precious silver
[04:36.95] To become an honest man
[04:43.19] By the witness of the martyrs
[04:49.23] By the passion and the blood
[04:54.29] God has raised you out of darkness
[04:59.61] I have bought your soul for God
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