The Present

When I saw him by the river

He just smiled and closed his eyes

He said: "you know that you're gonna give her

One more present, one more lie,"

I didn't see him for a while then

Though I heard his name around

So I walked down a hundred miles when

On that iron bridge it was him I found

I said: "you know that I have wandered

By the dust here on my feet

For every present that I have squandered

On every false heart that I meet

But I can't take back what I gave them

No, I can't make right what I've made wrong

I can't pretend that I tried to save them

When they were drowning in my song

So I don't come here for a new scar

For to cover the things I've done

I just come here to see how you are

Maybe see how I've become,"

Well, he lay there on that iron bridge

Where the earth and the waters part

He said: "hello there, well, ain't you gonna give

One more present to your own false heart?"