I knew a woman of a thousand reasons She had and answers for everything I used to kiss here just to keep here from speaking I’ve done the strangest things I was a solider and my anger was the weapon I drew the battle lines on every side I built a prison and I called it freedom I’ve done the strangest things I should have known there was rubble Lying at the end of the tunnel I was blinded Shake the rattle at the jungle wall Take the fire from the dragons jaw Chase the devil from the neighbourhood Just to watch him running Pound the drums so the wild men come Rising from my soul again Feel the power in my hand Revolution man I learned the language of the uninvited I learned to fool myself a thousand ways I was the poet in the house of silence I’ve done the strangest things I knew an old man with a face of winter He never noticed that the seasons change I took his photograph and covered up the mirror I’ve done the strangest things Shake the rattle at the jungle wall Take the fire from the dragons jaw Chase the devil from the neighbourhood Just to watch him running Pound the drums so the wild men come Rising from my soul again Feel the power in my hand Revolution man