TOM
music ©by mafish, text ©by ralf moß
I met Tom down alone in the club
He was plodin’ through the fields of pain
Hurted by love
Felt that darkness again
And I took place just beside
Lots of brandy and smokes
He find me at the end of his looks
Out of eyes made of glass
Out of a world
That circles around and around a woman
Who left him that day
He said: "Go, leave me alone
I drive home to be on my own!"
He staggered and stumbled with feet and with brain
To the door, his eyes expressed pain
And I stole him the key
He knocked me and I remembered
That he was a strong man
But I ran and he remembered
That I was a fast man
He shouted: "You swine of a friend
If I’ll get you it will be your end"
That was Tom in the night
And me just beside
Tom in the night
And I was so blind
No eyes to see
I was so blind
No eyes to see
He drifted away from his aim
From the way he would go
With small and with insecure steps
He devoured the night and after a while
His direction was home
But home was as far as the moon
I took the car and I opened the window
"Please come in I’ll give you a lift"
But "Get off you swine you son of a bitch"
He said and he marched and I drove beside
That was Tom in the night
And me just beside
Tom in the night
I spoke, but he doesn’t hear
I drove, and he jumped towards me
And Tom in the night in the light of a star
He smiled in the night and died by his car
In the beam of the headlight
He laid and I cried
Behind his steering-wheel
My foot on the brake
Much to late
That was Tom in the night...