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Well I’m a weary traveller

A puppeteer by trade

I count my profit in miles clocked up

An' the friends that i have made

My home i carry on my back

The map tattooed in veins

But i lost everything i had

In the cities of the plain

Well i came into town

With my head held down

My hands in my pockets too

Looking for a place to sleep

And maybe some decent food

Pretty soon i’d found a room

Gave the receptionist my name

But i didn’t know i’d signed my life away

In the cities or the plain

It seems that every place i go

People think they know me well

They come to laugh at the clothes i wear

And the stories that i tell

And in wood and paint i carve their souls

In their emptiness and pain

But people don’t like to see themselves

In the cities of the plain

Well i was asleep one afternoon

I was suddenly dragged from my bed

The mob had come in

With their clubs and their chains

And started beating me 'round the head

And a goon in a suit cried «string up the freak!»

Foaming from the mouth so insane

Then they dragged me out

On the cold soulless streets

Of the cities of the plain

Well it wasn’t me that let the boy escape

From the prison cell in town

And it wasn’t me who killed the guard

And burned the whole place down

But a bigot pointed his finger at me

Said «i bet that stranger was to blame!»

And now I’m being tried for my life

In the cities of the plain

The trial was a farce and fixed of course

And the witnesses had learnt their lines

The lawyers all spoke in jargonese

And the jury were all phillistines

And as far as i can see all i was guilty of

Was going up against the grain

But thars enough to lose your life

In the cities of the plain

So now I’m hanging from a tree

And here i must close my act

No one here can seem to distinguish

Between fiction and fact

Because the crowd crave blood

I can’t let them down

Is someone pulling my leg again?

Now i twitch as i dangle like a puppet

In the cities of the plain

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