I CONTAIN MULTITUDES


















I CONTAIN MULTITUDES







Today, and tomorrow, and yesterday, too

The flowers are dying, like all things do




Follow me close, I’m going to Bally-na-Lee

I’ll lose my mind if you don’t come with me




I fuss with my hair, and I fight blood feuds

I contain multitudes




Got a tell tale heart, like Mr. Poe

Got skeletons in the walls of people you know




I’ll drink to the truth, and the things we said

I’ll drink to the man that shares your bed




I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes

I contain multitudes




A red Cadillac, and a black mustache

Rings on my fingers that sparkle and flash




Tell me what’s next, what shall we do

Half my soul, baby, belongs to you




I'll rollick and I'll frolic with all the young dudes

I contain multitudes




I’m just like Anne Frank, like Indiana Jones

And them British bad boys, the Rolling Stones




I go right to the edge, I go right to the end

I go right where all things lost are made good again




I sing the songs of experience, like William Blake

I have no apologies to make




Everything’s flowing, all at the same time

I live on a boulevard of crime




I drive fast cars, and I eat fast foods

I contain multitudes




Pink pedal pushers, red blue jeans

All the pretty maids, and all the old queens




All the old creeds, from all my past lives

I carry four pistols and two large knives




I’m a man of contradictions, I’m a man of many moods

I contain multitudes




You greedy old wolf, I’ll show you my heart

But not all of it, only the hateful part




I’ll sell you down the river, I'll put a price on your head

What more can I tell you, I sleep with life and death in the same bed




Get lost, madam, get up off my knee

Keep your mouth away from me




I’ll keep the path open, the path in my mind

I’ll see to it that there’s no love left behind




I play Beethoven Sonatas, Chopin’s Preludes

I contain multitudes








PERFORMANCES

02 November 2021, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

03 November 2021, Chicago, Illinois











"I CONTAIN MULTITUDES"

was released online

in mid April of 2020,

and is included in the album

"Rough And Rowdy Ways"

released in June 2020.



The live debut of "I CONTAIN MULTITUDES"

was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in November 2021,

during the first concert of the fall 2021 US tour.

It was performed also during the next show, in Chicago, Illinois.













I play Beethoven Sonatas ...
















... I contain multitudes