The Painted Child-Charles Aznavour

[ti:The Painted Child] [ar:Charles Aznavour] [al:You and Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Painted Child - Charles Aznavour [00:08.90]The name on the wall is me [00:12.04] [00:12.73]The cry in the dark is me [00:15.06] [00:16.05]The mark of the child I sign [00:19.02] [00:19.68]The name on the wall [00:21.01] [00:23.93]I am the painted child the maker of confusion [00:26.62] [00:27.54]With rainbows in my hair and magic on my face [00:30.64] [00:31.37]A phantom of the street an optical illusion [00:34.29] [00:35.14]Who hears a different beat who runs a different race [00:38.45] [00:43.20]I am the painted child I am the mischief maker [00:45.98] [00:46.72]The beggar at the feast the fiddler at the ball [00:49.64] [00:50.85]I know the words of songs I am the Sabbath breaker [00:53.40] [00:54.56]The caller in the night the writing on the wall [00:57.43] [00:58.22]The name on the wall is me [01:01.36] [01:02.16]The cry in the dark is me [01:04.68] [01:05.57]The mark of the child I sign [01:08.48] [01:09.27]The name on the wall [01:10.39] [01:13.50]I am the painted child the child who is a stranger [01:17.14]And those who once came near now turn and walk away [01:19.89] [01:20.99]And everywhere is fear and everywhere is danger [01:23.85] [01:24.56]These are the masks we wear these are the parts we play [01:28.11] [01:32.65]I am the painted child the crier and the chorus [01:35.45] [01:36.33]I strike upon the drum for funerals and games [01:39.20] [01:40.19]And others there have come in centuries before us [01:43.03] [01:43.94]To fill the world with noise and dance among the flames [01:46.81] [01:47.34]The name on the wall is me [01:50.92] [01:51.79]The cry in the dark is me [01:54.35] [01:55.17]The mark of the child I sign [01:57.94] [01:58.90]The name on the wall [02:00.08] [02:02.97]I am the painted child the clown and the protester [02:05.58] [02:06.59]A creature of the time and seldom what I seem [02:09.20] [02:10.37]And call me what you will a renegade or jester [02:13.88]But still I chill your heart and still I haunt your dream [02:16.66] [02:21.59]I'll sing beside your grave half minstrel and half mourner [02:24.57] [02:25.39]I'll sing of years gone by and bridges never crossed [02:28.34] [02:29.13]I am the painted child who stands on any corner [02:32.41]I am the child you loved I am the child you lost [02:35.85] [02:36.65]The name on the wall is mine [02:40.07]Look in to my face and see [02:43.12] [02:43.72]The strange painted child [02:44.99] [02:48.02]Is me