Uploaded February 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Seeing a Friend Crying

Of course there are the Ireland wars
And the tribes without music
Of course all this lack of tender
And America is no more
Of course money has no smell
But no smell go up to your nose
Of course we walk on flowers
But but seeing a friend crying

Of course there are our defeats
And death at the very end
The body is already leaning it's head
Surprised of being still standing
Of course the unfaithful women
And the murdered birds
Of course our hearths are losing their wings
But but seeing a friend crying

Of course these exhausted cities
By these fifty years children
Our powerlessness in helping them
And our loves that have toothache
Of course the too fast time
These subways full of drowned
The truth that avoids us
But but seeing a friend crying

Of course our mirrors are upright
Neither the courage to be a jew
Nor the elegance to be a nigger
We think of us as wick we are only tallow
And all this men that are our brothers
So much we aren't surprised anymore
When for love they lacerate us
But but seeing a friend crying