Song Lyrics Van Morrison - For Mr. Thomas    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> V>> Van Morrison Singer Lyrics [Van Morrison other resources]>> For Mr. Thomas Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Van Morrison Music Title/Track: For Mr. Thomas Theme ID: 1268 Album: N/A copyright 1980, 1981 Robin Williamson From faded newsprint used to wrap a fish Inscrutably the muse selects your face While I sit drinking namelessly in a nameless bar Five thousand miles and thirty years away With all the usual ceremonial you were crowned one night King of the field where doctors nail the cows To make of the cock's quill the right of language And the pricking heart a sword against the hours Let smirking scholars writhe in their favoured bondage To hold you plaintiff to the charge of art Exhibit A: he falls on legendary lines Singing mother I want a bullet in the heart The judge in me sucks eggs and jerks the sacred meat For the boy in me still dreams in Milk Wood town Like two provincial bastards playing the galleries I hold your photo to the mirror upside down As bacon wafts through hungry streets, your ghost pervades Just like an old ex-boxer aged twenty two Staged up like Falstaff or the wild Welsh Rimbaud You'd laugh to see these monochromes they make of you Ah Mr. Thomas let us ramble through the midnight fair Let us throw old bottles at the ferris wheel Let us paint library on the library let us raid the moonlight Let us steal away whatever we are supposed to steal While the border guards check cards with their poker faces Never mind who is winning but the stakes are rare If this jack of thorns they let us hold outbids the joker Let us sneak higher till the frost clings in our hair Let us watch while the days grow daily more mundane That rough god go striding with his shears Hack wide the bellies of the swollen mountains And rip molten heroes forth to their furious tears Notes from Art Siegel: Van released this as a B-side in the early 80's. A different version, though obviously from the same session, appears on The Philosopher's Stone. Some of the verses are different in the different versions. Van does make some minor changes in the lyrics, such as drinking famously in an Irish bar in the first verse and .... having the rough god go riding (rather than striding) in another. Also, mother I want a bullet in the heart becomes mother I don't want a pain here in my heart. Overall, he stays true to Robin Williamson's original words, and adds the choruses, but he doesn't sing the verse about the border guards in either version Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Get On With The Show, Give Me A Kiss, Give Me A Kiss Just One Sweet Kiss, Give Me My Rapture, Glad Tidings, Gloria, Gloria (in album The Story of Them), Go For Yourself, Go On Home Baby, Goin Down Geneva, Goin Down Geneva, Going Home, Golden Autumn Day, Goldfish Bowl, Good Morning Blues, Good Morning Little School Girl, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Goodbye Baby, Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye), Goodbye George, Goodnight Irene, Got To Go Back, Green Mansions, Grits Aint Groceries, Grits Aint Groceries, Gypsy, Gypsy Queen, Half as Much, Hang On Groovy, Hard Nose the Highway, Haunts Of Ancient Peace, Have I Told You Lately, He Aint Give You None, He Aint Give You Name, Heathrow Shuffle, Heavy Connection, Hello Josephine, Help Me, Here Comes Dumb George, Here Comes The Knight, Here Comes the Night, Hey Girl, Hey Mr Dj, Hey Where Are You, High Spirits, High Summer, Higher Than The World, Hold On George, How Long Baby, How Long Has This Been Going On?, Other Van Morrison song Lyrics (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 Lyrics (It Wont Hurt) Half As Much Lyrics (It Wont Hurt) Half As Much Lyrics (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball Lyrics 4 Pantomime Lyrics A New Kind Of Man Lyrics A Sense Of Wonder Lyrics A Town Called Paradise Lyrics Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell Lyrics Aint Nothin You Can Do Lyrics Alabamy Bound Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Van Ronk Dave Lyrics Van Veen Herman Lyrics Herman Van Veen Lyrics Vanda Vanda Lyrics Vandals Lyrics Vandals, The Lyrics Vandavanda Lyrics Vanden Plas Lyrics Vandenberg Lyrics Vandeross Luther Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy