Early one morning when Adam said to Eve,
"I dont know why you gotta treat me so mean"
"God knows that you dont actually mean that,
now tell me that you love me 'fore I take my rib back"
And Eve says "Gees, babe, you aint seen me mean,
you need to a little more tough at the seams.
You gotta stop treating me so soft,
a touch of mean, babe, sometimes pays off."
Late one night while Eve was asleep,
Adam took a ride down the river of peace.
A face so dead and still and smooth,
soon came alive with shards of the moon.
At the edge of the water was a fire glowing hot and mean.
It was the holiest God-damned fire Adam had ever seen.
"tell me, fire, what way I gotta walk?"
Fire had an answer for Adam but it couldn't talk.
Eve woke up and Adam, he wasn't there.
God was looking at a cup, trying to fill it up.
The river rose high and a shiver began to blow,
Eve rose to her feet, said, "I believe we gotta go"
A look back at the late Bert Jansch's 1985 classic, "From The Outside," an album that bridges the gap between his native Scotland and the Americana his music invokes. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2016