My Past Lives — текст песни (Too Much Joy)

I was Genghis Kahn I was Aristophenes
I was a guy named Urgh in 50,000 B.C.
I was Rasputin and all the chicks he had
I was Catherine the Great I was my mom and dad
I`ve been a butcher I`ve been a baker I have been a bookmaker
I have skippered Clipper ships and dug for undertakers
I`ve lived to be 98 and I have died when I was four
I`ve lived through war and peace and war and war and war and war

I could write a book about my past lives
I should write a book about my past lives
I died three times at Waterloo
This life`s not the best but at least I`m not you

I was Abe Lincoln I was all the slaves he freed
This life`s not the best but at least you`re not me
I`ve been French noblemen and I`ve been Russian peasants
I`ve been somebodies, nobodies, once I was a pheasant

Iwas there when Ceasar bled and I followed where Moses led
I wrote the words Mohammed said, I kissed the ground where St. Paul tread
I was best man when Henry wed, I put the crown on George`s head
I slept in Washington`s bed, I shot John F. Kennedy dead

I watched Atlantis sink below, hung out with Bowie at the aAlamo
I didn`t like being Edgar Allen Poe, I was sick a lot whe I was Rimbaud
I helped the druids build Stonehenge, me and Buddha invented Zen
Once I borrowed Shakespeare`s pen, Joan of Arc was my best friend