Outside Of The Inside Lyrics - Richard Thompson

God never listened to Charlie Parker 

Charlie Parker lived in vain 

Blasphemer, womanizer 

Let a needle numb his brain 

Wash away his monkey music 

Damn his demons, damn his pain 

And what? s the point of Albert Einstein 

What do we need Physics for? 

Heresy? s his inspiration 

Corrupt and rotten to the core 

Curse his devious mathematics 

Curse his deadly atom war 

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There? s a message on the wind 

Calling me to glory somewhere 

There are signs too deep for the dumb 

Like perfume in the air 

And when I get to Heaven 

I won? t realize that I? m there 

Shakespeare, Isaac Newton 

Small ideas for little boys 

Adding to the senseless chatter 

Adding to the background noise 

Hard to hear my oratory 

Hard to hear my inner voice 

Van Gogh, Botticelli 

Scraping paint onto a board 

Color is the fuel of madness 

That? s no way to praise the Lord 

Gray? s the color of the pious 

Knelt upon the misery cord 

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There? s a message on the wind 

Calling me to glory somewhere 

There are signs too deep for the dumb 

Like perfume in the air 

And when I get to Heaven 

I won? t realize that I? m there 

I? m familiar with the cover 

I don? t need to read the book 

I police the world of action 

Inside? s where I can never look 

Got no time to help the worthless 

Lotus-eaters, Mandarins, crooks 

There? s a message on the wind 

Calling me to glory somewhere 

There are signs too deep for the dumb 

Like perfume in the air 

And when I get to Heaven 

I won? t realize that I? m there