Jesse Welles – Siddhartha
Released on Aug 25, 2025
over the stone
under the trees
together we ran
with no real plan
lookin to get free
turnin our mind
into desolation
into a no-man’s land
where no man had
dared the deprivation
and I left you
or you left me
tears were cried
and part of me died
but I knew that I had to leave
and you asked me to stay
I told you I can’t
well I can’t be taught
what I ain’t got
so it was down the road I ran
there is a man in a yellow cloak
he knows somethin I don’t know
what so?
I met a girl
she taught me how to love
she turned me into a man
I forgot who I am
or I remembered who I was
and I made me a fortune
I staked out a claim
then I drank all the wine
and I rolled all the dice
and I pissed it all away
and I went to the river
to drown
but somethin in my head
said yer no good dead
why don’t you jus lay down
and when I awoke
I saw my old friend
but old friends don’t change
they jus get more the same
and he went down the road again
there is a man in a yellow cloak
good for him
it’s getting cold
I had me a son
his mother died
she got bit by a snake
and it slithered away
but I tried to raise him right
but the boy ran off
bitterly I wept
well I looked up and down
around the town
can nothing here be kept?
there is a man in a yellow cloak
I know something he don’t know
do you want to know a secret
do you want to know the truth
the river is laughing
and we’re only passing
through
I said: ferryman
what is time
he said there’s no such thing
listen to the stream
so I did and he said goodbye
and my old friend came
and he kissed my head
he saw all gods and men
die and live again
I guess we’re never really dead
there is a man in a yellow cloak
there ain’t nothing left to know
do you want to know a secret
do you want to know the truth
the river is laughing
and we’re only passing
through
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Songwriter: Jesse Welles
Content Source/Artist: Jesse Welles
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