I've read a lot around your case,

I've studied in a foreign place,

I've thought a lot about me and you,

 

Deep in your cave in the fire light,*                              Plato –The Republic

,Shadows thrown from out of sight,

Illusions grandeur now-you're locked in tight,

 

But there ain't nobody here to help the blind.

 

What can you do? you say to me,

Of passion and pleasure we seem to agree.

 Desire is not all its cracked out to be.

 

I sing your songs, they're beautiful

I've read your words, they're mindful,

 Of everything- I want to be.

 

But there ain't nobody here to help the blind.

 

I see you standing in the light,

Your rebel cause, your rebel fight,

I should have known you, long time ago.

 

You question things that just aren't right.

Lies, untruths that come to blight,

The grace and justice and love we need to know,

 

But there ain't nobody here to help the blind.

 

Speak to me when I’m down, Lift me up without a sound.

Come to me when I’m alone, bound up in this flesh and bone. 

Take me in your hand, hold me now I understand.

Don't leave me and go away, I can’t change these orphaned ways.

 

 You question things that just aren't right.

Lies, untruths that come to blight,

The grace and justice and love we need to know,

 

But there ain’t nobody but you to help the blind.

But there ain’t nobody but you to help the blind.