Orphan from Madrid (Guernica)

Jack Hardy

[Verse 1]
I am an orphan from Madrid
I pass my nights in search of homes
And though the people try to keep me hid
And preach against me, I am never alone
I am the black sheep huddled in a sad café
Arguing with Aphrodite to forsake her name
Late at night we listen to the radio
For a song that I used to sing so long ago
And I tell to her all of my foreign dreams
And who will find for me a home?

[Verse 2]
When I was young I moved to Rome
With a dog who tagged along, I knew his dreams
To the ancient city built on bones
And all those temples built to gods obscene
I am the black-shirted knight who plays the game
Though the left-winged newspapers slander my name
They'll learn the pen is not always stronger than the sword
And that thoughts are not always put down with words
I search the streets for the order that chaos brings
And who will find for me a home?

[Verse 3]
And so I moved north to Cologne
And Bonn and Munich where I could spend the spring
In many places my light has shown
That golden box to which I now hold the strings
In the blackened night those stars will appear
Those dim-lit cellars cry out, calling with their beer
I spend my afternoons walking at the zoo
All those birds of carnage caged and crying turn me loose
A crowd of people can never think alone
And who will find for me a home?

[Outro]
I am an orphan from Madrid
And who will find for me a home?

Trivia about the song Orphan from Madrid (Guernica) by Jack Hardy

When was the song “Orphan from Madrid (Guernica)” released by Jack Hardy?
The song Orphan from Madrid (Guernica) was released in 1982, on the album “Landmark”.

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