When You Know

1. He gazed upon the sleepy Sunday towns of summertime,

Crawled back to his machine determined to go on,

He wrote a thousand bad stories before he wrote a good one,

In his mayfly life between the two great silences.                             

                           Chorus

When you know you know you know 

You know you know you know you know.

2. The only time he got high these days was in his dreams,

And that's where the story of the robot started to appear,

The strangest thing nothing was as it seems,

So he gave it a name called it Broken Future.

                          Repeat chorus

3. She worked as a maid in the 7-star Oslo Hotel,

And drew a Star of David on some hotel paper one day,

Fifteen years later he stood at her shock funeral

Wondering what she meant by the Star of David to say.

                         Repeat chorus

4. He'd had enough of life on the crooked and the broad,

And howled like a shipwrecked man who'd lost everything,

So he headed down Straight Street trying to be good,

In his hour of grief all he could do was sing.

                         Repeat chorus

© Brian Ahern 2024