Song & Dance for the Unborn, Frightened Child Songtext
von Al Kooper

Once I was someone looking for someone with nothing inside
Something I faced now the whole thing′s erased
It's an old game I tried
Through a crowd of people staring
Not a face in fifty caring now
And yet I still continue to flow through a world I don′t know
I hear the music of my life

Lips softly stalling the infant is calling let nobody hear
Checking my face to select the right places
For wrinkles of fear
We see the Christ child gently sleeping
Mad Madonna softly weeping now
And yet I still continue to flow through a world I don't know


I look at you and you look back at me
And we stare at each other in complete apathy
I'm so sad
Evening is poor but the morning′s all right
If you stay pressed to me while the sun touches night
I′ll be glad

Something of no one's inherent in slow ones
The deft matricide
You flee to the East on the wings of the Beast
For a new place to hide
Life is only matter crumbling
Souls and moral conscience tumbling
Down
And yet I still continue to flow through a world I don′t know
I hear the music of my life