John Wesley Harding - An Audience With You Lyrics
Your footman barred me from the doorSaid I couldnt see you no moreWhats with this bureaucracyWhen I filled the forms you left for meHes a loyal man who waits for youWhere loyalty is such tabooSixteen keyholes in one straight lineI look through them from time to timeThe weather down your end looks fineBut the forecasts grim down mineIm no gamble better understandI like to know the story planPeople say I got no senseBut Im waiting for an audience with youAnd all the wrestlers youve employedAnd all the boys with whom you toyedYou tell me please dont get annoyedYoure behaving like some helen of troyI dont care for original sinIts a stupid world were living inYour paid assassin makes me waitHe eats with fingers off his plateHe says youve got a pressing dateWith r.i.ps and heads of stateI know that he wont let me inCos villains always have bad skinPeople say I got no senseBut Im waiting for an audience with youA plastic surgeons your best friendHes got the means to any endHes so efficient, youre so vainSo we wont see your face againHeaven knows how hard you triedHell was such a bumpy rideThe widow with the holy eyesGot a pistol strapped into her thighsSays youre as sweet as apple pieYou only get so *****y cos youre shyBut thats a load of papal bullI put you on that pedestalPeople say I got no senseBut Im waiting for an audience with youGive me the strength of herculesHis fallen arches, water kneesAnd please please let me be like I oughtta beLost and lonely, hurt and happyWith a singers vanityNow everything seems like a mythThe strength that I have performed withTwo thousand stairs and theres no liftGonna get to the top and theres no ifWhats for me when I get thereIs it just wheelchairs and grey hairAnd never was one letter sentI told the truth but told it bentThats the custom thats the lawBut dont ask me the reason forIm just a boy in love with youIm rejected by the things you doPeople say I got no senseBut Im waiting for an audience with you
