Gerry Rafferty - Metanoia lyrics

Metanoia

I saw the light

I changed my world

I changed my heart

We sing a song of repentance

A song of joy

We sing a song of repentance

A song of joy

My father's mansion has many rooms

But we all live on the lowest floor

Don't even know there is light above

This understanding won't do no more

We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

I was sitting on a barbed wire fence

Metanoia, it made no sense

How many times I should have cried to you

Now crying won't do no good

We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

I saw the river, I've seen the door

I ruled the world, talked to the people

They didn't understand

They went walking, yeah they went walking

I saw (I saw the river) the light

I've seen the door

I changed (I ruled the world) my world

Talked to the people

I changed (they didn't understand) my heart

They went walking, yeah they went walking

Metanoia

Metanoia

Civilisations they come and go

From ancient Greece down to Mexico

The truth gets lost along the way

We're still dragging our feet in clay

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We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

We sing a song of repentance

We sing a song of joy

Metanoia (metanoia)