KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - Duvalier's Dream lyrics

Duvalier was a bitter man who cursed the morning sun

That brought a new betrayl every day

He shank the world of mortals and the sounds of human tongues

And blessed the night that chased their sight away.

A disillusioned dreamer who would never love again

Who tried a bit and found that it was rotten

Preparing perfect strangers to the company of friends

'Cause strangers are so easily forgotten.

Oh, it's hard to keep believing when you know you've been deceived

To face a lie and then to try again

But there's nothing like a woman with the spell of make believe

To make a new believer of a man.

Duvalier took the fickle turns of fortune in his strife

Expecting next to nothing out of life

Till fortune found a girl who fan the flame her thought had died

Whose burning beauty cut him like a knife.

She touched him through the senses that his mind could not control

Then smiling stepped aside and watched him fall

Betrayed by his own body and the hunger in his soul

Duvalier was a dreamer after all.

Oh, it's hard to keep believing when you know you've been deceived

To face a lie and then to try again

But there's nothing like a woman with the spell of make believe

To make a new believer of a man...