David Crosby – Vagrants Of Venice lyrics

Verse 1
Book born Vagrants fishing
Endless, aimless in the
Flooded palace where the
King of Venice used to lie

Verse 2
Lonely woman plants a
Roof top garden from the
Soil that’s blown in and the
Seeds that washed up on the tides

Verse 3
Two young orphans burning
Ancient paintings and
Victorian tables just to
Keep from freezing in the night

Verse 4
They were born here knowing
Nothing other than the
Tales of mad men swearing
And before them used to lie

Refrain (1)
All very peaceful now
They have forgotten how
Greed used to drive us to fight
And to climb

(Chorus)
Wild people
Nearly feral
Living on what they can find
Just the fish and the fisherman
Mankind, and time

Verse 5
Fearful vagrants fashion
Tools to save them from the
Greed-born slavers that come
Swift on dark sails in the night

Verse 6
Sometimes tyrants passing
Hungry silence are there
No more orphans in their
Flooded world stripped bone dry

Verse 7
Perched like monkeys in the
Triple canopy of a
Crumbling jungle watching
Remnants of another world sail by

Refrain (2)
All very quiet now
They have forgotten how
Music used to live here
To dance in the minds

(Chorus)

By Michelle Willis, David Crosby, Becca Stevens, Michael League