The 33rd Of August lyrics

Song information

Artist: Joan Baez
Album: Blessed Are

Lyrics

Today, there's no salvation, the band's packed up and gone
Left me standing with my penny in my hand
There's a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his song
But he can see what they cant understand

(Chorus)
Its the thirty-third of august and i'm finally touching down
Eight days from sunday finds me saturday bound

Once I stumbled through the darkness, tumbled to my knees
A thousand voices screaming in my brain
Woke up in a squad car, busted down for vagrancy
Outside my cell as sure as hell, it looked like rain

But now i've got my dangerous feelings under lock and chain
Guess I killed my violent nature with a smile
Though the demons danced and sang their song within my fevered brain
Not all my god-like thoughts, lord, were defiled