Gethsemane Lyrics

The song Gethsemane is performed by Richard Thompson in the album named Old Kit Bag in the year 2003 .



Among the headstones you played as boys
Crypts and tombs like a roomful of toys
Just up the river from the smoke and the noise
Gethsemane
And there's war-whoops and secret signs in the trees
Estuary smells coming up on the breeze
O perfect endless days like these
O Gethsemane

Sailboat on the Cadie, pushbike on the quay
In your eyes there's fire, in your hand destiny
'O be something, be something fine!'

Just down the river, into the noise and the smoke
Being daring with the staring, uncaring folk
Who laugh with you, laugh at you, you'll never get the joke
Gethsemane
And they broke your spirit there in the marines
Flushed your head down in the latrines
Frozen in your sacrement, derailed in your teens
Never saw the enemy

And those bosses betrayed, soon let you go
The fire in your eyes, how could they know
'O be something, be something fine!'

Now you've got your own boys, hell bent for leather
Dead before they're 18, or bitter old men forever
They never saw the halo moon rise over the river
Of Gethsemane
Now there's a pain in your head puts lead in your shoes
Better get it seen to, it's going to be bad news
How did the perfect world get so confused
O Gethsemane

Who s*cked out the freedom, days without end
Under the weight of it all you must bend
'O be something, be something fine!'



Richard Thompson - Old Kit Bag

May 2003

  1. Gethsemane
  2. Jealous Words
  3. I'll Tag Along
  4. A Love You Can't Survive
  5. Open Door Breathes
  6. First Breath
  7. She Said it was Destiny
  8. I've Got No Right to Have it All
  9. Pearly Jim
  10. Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen
  11. Outside of the Inside
  12. Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne
  13. So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo (Orazio Vecchi, Arr. R. Thompson)
  14. Kiss (Prince)
  15. Richard Thompson BBC Documentary Footage

Gethsemane