All Your Young Servants
You live on your hill so high and so lonely
You toss out your bread crumbs to those down below
They think you're a king, believe me it's only
Because they're too blinded to know
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
Well, there once was a time when your money had meaning
Your diamonds had glitter but now it's all gone
It poisoned your laughter and muffled your singing
You can't even see that it's wrong
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
So go back to your sadness, go back to your sorrow
I'll make my bed on a hill 'neath the sky
And lay there a-listening 'till the sun comes tomorrow
Counting the tears that you cry
Oh, your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
You toss out your bread crumbs to those down below
They think you're a king, believe me it's only
Because they're too blinded to know
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
Well, there once was a time when your money had meaning
Your diamonds had glitter but now it's all gone
It poisoned your laughter and muffled your singing
You can't even see that it's wrong
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
So go back to your sadness, go back to your sorrow
I'll make my bed on a hill 'neath the sky
And lay there a-listening 'till the sun comes tomorrow
Counting the tears that you cry
Oh, your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
There's dust on your silver and cracks in your crystal
And all your young servants have drifted away
Your castle is dingy and dirty and dismal
Your carpets are faded, your walls are all grey
Credits
Writer(s): John Townes Van Zandt
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Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Calling Me Home (Live Austin 1995)
- Somebody Had To Write It
- Sky Blue
- All I Need
- The Best of Townes Van Zandt
- Down Home and Abroad
- The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Remastered Edition)
- The Nashville Sessions (Remastered Edition)
- Concert Radio: Townes Van Zandt (Live)
- Live at the Old Quarter - Houston, Texas, Pt. 2
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