WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.810 --> 00:00:04.670 align:middle line:84% And I'll end with this one, which is called 00:00:04.670 --> 00:00:05.975 align:middle line:90% "The Songs We Know best." 00:00:05.975 --> 00:00:09.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.050 --> 00:00:11.390 align:middle line:84% "Just like a shadow in an empty room, 00:00:11.390 --> 00:00:14.390 align:middle line:84% like a breeze that's pointed from beyond the tomb, 00:00:14.390 --> 00:00:18.320 align:middle line:84% just like a project of which no one tells, or did you really 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.450 align:middle line:90% think that I was somebody else? 00:00:20.450 --> 00:00:23.360 align:middle line:84% Your clothes and pant legs looking out of shape, 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:25.910 align:middle line:84% shape of the body over which they drape. 00:00:25.910 --> 00:00:29.210 align:middle line:84% Body which is acted in so many scenes, but did you 00:00:29.210 --> 00:00:31.760 align:middle line:84% ever think of what that body means? 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.570 align:middle line:84% It is an organ and a vice to some, a necessary evil which 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:36.950 align:middle line:90% we all must shun. 00:00:36.950 --> 00:00:39.890 align:middle line:84% To others, an abstraction and a piece of meat. 00:00:39.890 --> 00:00:43.610 align:middle line:84% But when you're looking out, you're in the driver's seat. 00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:46.640 align:middle line:84% No man cares little about fleshly things. 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.000 align:middle line:84% They fill in with a silence that spreads and rings. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.850 align:middle line:84% We wish to know more, but we are never sated. 00:00:52.850 --> 00:00:56.870 align:middle line:84% No wonder some folks think the flesh is overrated. 00:00:56.870 --> 00:01:00.110 align:middle line:84% The things we know now all got learned in school. 00:01:00.110 --> 00:01:02.990 align:middle line:84% Try to learn a new thing and you break the rule. 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:04.280 align:middle line:90% Our knowledge isn't much. 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.970 align:middle line:84% It's just a small amount, but you feel it quick inside you 00:01:07.970 --> 00:01:10.280 align:middle line:90% when you're down for the count. 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.160 align:middle line:84% You look at me and frown like I was out of place. 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:16.490 align:middle line:84% I guess I never did much for the human race, just hatched 00:01:16.490 --> 00:01:19.280 align:middle line:84% some schemes on paper that looked good at first. 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.460 align:middle line:84% Sat around and watched until the bubble burst. 00:01:22.460 --> 00:01:25.490 align:middle line:84% And now you're looking good all up and down the line, 00:01:25.490 --> 00:01:28.490 align:middle line:84% except for one thing you still have in mind. 00:01:28.490 --> 00:01:31.850 align:middle line:84% It's always there, though often with a different face. 00:01:31.850 --> 00:01:36.230 align:middle line:84% It's the worm inside the jumping beam that makes it race. 00:01:36.230 --> 00:01:38.150 align:middle line:84% Too often when you thought you'd be showered 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:40.190 align:middle line:84% with confetti, what they flung at 00:01:40.190 --> 00:01:42.890 align:middle line:84% you was a plate of hot spaghetti. 00:01:42.890 --> 00:01:46.400 align:middle line:84% You put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock, 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.360 align:middle line:84% yet you pause before your father's door afraid to knock. 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:53.220 align:middle line:84% Once you knew the truth, it tried to set you free. 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:56.690 align:middle line:84% And still you stood transfixed just like an apple tree. 00:01:56.690 --> 00:01:59.630 align:middle line:84% The truth it came and went and left you in the lurch, 00:01:59.630 --> 00:02:02.960 align:middle line:84% and now you think you see it from your lofty perch. 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:04.490 align:middle line:90% The others come and go. 00:02:04.490 --> 00:02:05.915 align:middle line:90% They're just a dime a dozen. 00:02:05.915 --> 00:02:09.560 align:middle line:84% You react to them no more than to a distant cousin. 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.160 align:middle line:84% Only a few people can touch your heart, and they too it seems 00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:15.500 align:middle line:90% have all gotten a false start. 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:17.420 align:middle line:84% In twilight, the city with its hills 00:02:17.420 --> 00:02:20.000 align:middle line:84% shine serene and lets you make of it 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.100 align:middle line:90% more than anything could mean. 00:02:22.100 --> 00:02:26.480 align:middle line:84% It's the same city by day that seems so crude and calm. 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:30.350 align:middle line:84% You'll have to get to know it, not just pump its arm. 00:02:30.350 --> 00:02:33.020 align:middle line:84% Even when that bugle sounded loud and clear, 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:35.480 align:middle line:84% you knew it put an end to all your fear, 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:38.600 align:middle line:84% to all that lying in the senseless mistakes. 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:41.810 align:middle line:84% And now you've got it right and you know what it takes. 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:44.690 align:middle line:84% Someday I'll look you up when we're both old and gray 00:02:44.690 --> 00:02:47.900 align:middle line:84% and talk about those times we had so far away, 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:51.230 align:middle line:84% how much it mattered then and how it matters still. 00:02:51.230 --> 00:02:54.570 align:middle line:84% Only things look so different when you've got a will. 00:02:54.570 --> 00:02:57.830 align:middle line:84% It's true that out of this misunderstanding could end 00:02:57.830 --> 00:03:01.070 align:middle line:84% and men would greet each other like they'd found a friend. 00:03:01.070 --> 00:03:04.190 align:middle line:84% With lots of friends around, there's no one to entice. 00:03:04.190 --> 00:03:07.610 align:middle line:84% And don't you think seduction isn't very nice. 00:03:07.610 --> 00:03:10.610 align:middle line:84% It carries in this room against the painted wall 00:03:10.610 --> 00:03:14.420 align:middle line:84% and hangs in folds of curtains when it's not there at all. 00:03:14.420 --> 00:03:17.510 align:middle line:84% It's woven in the flowers of the pattern spread 00:03:17.510 --> 00:03:21.560 align:middle line:84% and lies, and knows not what it thinks upon the bed. 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.320 align:middle line:84% I wish to come to know you get to know you all, 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:26.360 align:middle line:84% let your belief in me and me and you 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:30.560 align:middle line:84% stand tall just like a project at which no one tells. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.580 align:middle line:84% Or do you still think that I'm somebody else?" 00:03:34.580 --> 00:03:35.640 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:38.580 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:38.580 --> 00:03:56.220 align:middle line:90% 00:03:56.220 --> 00:04:00.990 align:middle line:84% I'd be happy to autograph any books if you would like me to. 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:03.620 align:middle line:90% So I'll be here. 00:04:03.620 --> 00:04:06.100 align:middle line:90%