Lyrics Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Gone Again

Hey, now man's own kin

We commend into the wind

Grateful arms, grateful limbs

Grateful soul he's gone again

... he's gone again

I have a winter's tale

A vagrant hearts relent prevail

Sow their seed into the wind

Seize the sky and they're gone again

Fame is fleeting God is nigh

We raise our arms to Him on night

We shoot our flint into the sun

We bless our spoils and we're gone, we're gone

Hey, now man's own kin

We commend into the wind

Grateful arms, grateful limbs

Grateful heart gone again

Here a man, man's own kin

He turned his back and his own people shot him

And he fell on his knees before the burning plane

And he beheld fields of gold his land, his sun

And he arose his blood aflame

The clouds pressed with hand prints stained

One last breath the sky is high

The hungry earth the empty vein

The ashes rain death's own bed

Man's own kin into the wind

One last breath hole in life

Love knot tied braid undone

Child born the hollow horn

Warrior cried a warrior died

One last breath lick of flame

Spirit moaned spirit shed

The heavens fed man's own kin

Grips the sky and he's gone again

Hey, now man's own kin

We lay down into the wind

Grateful arms, grateful limbs

Grateful heart he's gone again

Hey, now man's own kin

He ascends into the wind

Grateful heart, grateful limbs

Grateful man he's gone again