Tin Drum Lyrics - Singles - Childs Toni

Toni Childs, David Ricketts 

there's an old man talkin 

to a young boy weepin 

to an old man shaking his head 

there's a cool gentle breeze 

in the night full of light 

as the red glow wavers in the stead 

there's a black man crying 

and a white man dyin 

and a black man's head in the air 

the shock of life 

feeds the fight 

the fight that's in my head 

holding tight in the stillness of the night 

in the stillness of my thoughts 

yet, I know I've only started 

beating on a tin drum marching to a sound 

what is it I think? 

am I beating on a tin drum marching to a cause 

when I don't know what it is I believe 

lonely peeping chick 

calling to his mother 

runs amuck 

in a sunken black ditch 

and wilham's with the widow 

while martha's in the meadow 

and the lamb is a layin in sick 

and the boy in back 

is talking some slack 

to the king of auld lang syne 

and my heart goes out 

but I cannot spout what I do not know inside 

holding tight in the stillness of my mind 

in the stillness of my thought 

yet, I know I've only started