Over the stone Under the trees Together we ran With no real plan Lookin' to get free Turnin' our mind Into desolation Into a no-man's land Where no man had Dared the deprivation And I left you Or you left me Tears were cried And part of me died But I knew that I had to leave And you asked me to stay I told you I can't Well I can't be taught What I ain't got So it was down the road I ran There is a man in a yellow cloak He knows somethin' I don't know What so? I met a girl She taught me how to love She turned me into a man I forgot who I am Or I remembered who I was And I made me a fortune I staked out a claim Then I drank all the wine And I rolled all the dice And I pissed it all away And I went to the river To drown But somethin' in my head Said yer no good dead Why don't you jus' lay down And when I awoke I saw my old friend But old friends don't change They jus' get more the same And he went down the road again There is a man in a yellow cloak Good for him It's getting cold I had me a son His mother died She got bit by a snake And it slithered away But I tried to raise him right But the boy ran off Bitterly I wept Well I looked up and down Around the town Can nothing here be kept? There is a man in a yellow cloak I know something he don't know Do you want to know a secret Do you want to know the truth The river is laughing And we're only passing Through I said: ferryman What is time He said there's no such thing Listen to the stream So I did and he said goodbye And my old friend came And he kissed my head He saw all gods and men Die and live again I guess we're never really dead There is a man in a yellow cloak There ain't nothing left to know Do you want to know a secret Do you want to know the truth The river is laughing And we're only passing Through