Caruso Lyrics - Joan Baez

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) 

Infinity gives me chills 

So could the waters of Iceland 

But there's a difference in finding diamonds in rust 

And rhinestones in a dishpan 

Miracles bowl me over 

And often will they do so 

Now I think I was asleep till I heard 

The voice of the great Caruso 

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Bring infinity home 

Let me embrace it one more time 

Make it the lilies of the field 

Or Caruso in his prime 

A friend of mine gave me a tape 

She'd copied from a record disc 

It was made at the turn of the century 

And found in a jacket labeled "misc." 

And midst cellos, harps, and flugelhorns 

With the precision of a hummingbird's heart 

Was the lord of the monarch butterflies 

One-time ruler of the world of art 

Bring infinity home 

Let me embrace it one more time 

Make it the lilies of the field 

or Caruso in his prime 

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Yes, the king of them all was Enrico 

Whose singular chest could rival 

A hundred fervent Baptists 

Giving forth in a tent revival 

True he was a vocal miracle 

But that's only secondary 

It's the sould of the monarch butterfly 

That I find a little bit scary 

Bring infinity home 

Let me embrace it one more time 

Make it the lilies of the field 

Or Caruso in his prime 

Perhaps he's just a vehicle 

To bear us to the hills of Truth 

That's Truth spelled with a great big T 

And peddled in the mystic's booth 

There are oh so many miracles 

That the western sky exposes 

Why go looking for lilacs 

When you're lying in a bed of roses? 

Bring infinity home 

Let me embrace it one more time 

Make it the lilies of the field 

Or Caruso in his prime 

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