There Was a Man

There was a man came to our town He wore a suit of red He memorized with secret eyes That he hid away in his head He had a scar upon his head Where there used to be a crown But he sold his robes at the five and ten And lived on the edge of town That fall he showed us a magic leaf That he could change to snow He bought it partly with his grief And partly with his soul He scattered seeds in the alley way He never seemed to rest And when you went to ask him why All he ever said was yes He made a swan from waving grass Beside a crystal shore And a sunrise spun from broken glass And many things wondrous more But then his hands began to burn When he heard the news from the war When we cannot find each other he said Then we can't run away any more Next day with tears along his face He passed us on the hill No one thought to ask him to stay And he knows that we never will There was a man came to our town He wore a suit of red He memorized with secret eyes That he hid away in his head --- There Was a Man - Pearls Before Swine