Fwd: melancholy

"Stranger to himself" (Jim Capaldi / Steve Winwood)
(from Traffic's "John Barleycorn must die" (1970) album

Struggling with confusion, disillusionment too
Can turn a man into a shadow, crying out from pain

Through his nightmare vision, he sees nothing, only well
Blind with the beggar's mind, he's but a stranger
He's but a stranger to himself

Suspended from a rope inside a bucket down a hole
His hands are torn and bloodied from the scratching at his soul

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The shadow of a lonely man, theres nobody else
In the shadow of a lonely, lonely man
I can see myself

(from "Shadow of a lonely man" (Eric Woolfson / Alan Parsons)
"Pyramid", Alan Parsons Project, 1978)

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