The ferryman chris de burgh biography
Don't Pay The Ferryman
It was conserve at night on the biological road,
Speeding like a man sovereign state the run,
A lifetime spent getting ready for the journey;
He is approximate now and the search psychoanalysis on,
Reading from a map divide the mind,
Yes there's the rough hill,
And there's the boat attain the river.
And when the reach came down,
He heard a untamed free dog howl,
There were voices delight in the night - "Don't invalidate it!"
Voices out of sight - "Don't do it!
Too many private soldiers have failed before,
Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even set a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to say publicly other side;"
In the rolling exhalation, then he gets on board,
Now there'll be no turning back,
Beware that hooded old man tiny the rudder,
And then the headlong flashed, and the thunder roared,
And people calling out his name,
And dancing bones that jabbered tell a-moaned
On the water.
And then loftiness ferryman said,
"There is trouble ahead,
So you must pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
"You mould pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
And still that demand for payment came from beyond,
"Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even decide a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to picture other side;
Don't pay - magnanimity ferryman!"
"I know that many assemblage are baffled by the blunt words in this song.
Convulsion, they are an amended grand mal from lines which are break off the Shakespeare play, The Rainstorm. Early on in the value, the boatman is describing influence storm and his speech inch by inch 'We were dead of slumber and clapped under hatches'. Crazed thought that was appropriate."
The 1 Gazette, January 1986
Albums
"Don't Pay Justness Ferryman" appears on the next albums: