I Was Here-Philip Quast

[ti:I Was Here] [ar:Philip Quast] [al:Live at the Donmar] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Was Here - Philip Quast [00:07.39]I've gone without bread [00:08.63] [00:10.28]I've slept in the mud [00:11.32] [00:13.37]I've given my best while they've screamed for my blood [00:16.94] [00:18.40]I've begged and I've bullied for any small chance to perform [00:22.96] [00:26.67]At nights I've awakened my guts in a knot [00:29.37] [00:30.40]Remembering how much I gave up and for what [00:33.45] [00:34.70]Some paints and some costumes are a pitiful tent in a storm [00:39.10] [00:42.56]A handful of coins a trunk always packed [00:46.50]No family no home just this madness to act [00:50.02] [00:52.64]Still I have a theory about this disease we contract [00:58.28] [01:03.03]That most men are equally crazy as actors in fact [01:10.01] [01:20.00]Why does a boy carve his name on a tree [01:23.96] [01:24.92]Or the first born inherit the throne [01:27.67] [01:30.36]What is a sculptor aspiring to be [01:33.95] [01:34.78]When he spends half his life carving stone [01:38.03] [01:40.21]Kings build their tombs for the ages [01:42.70] [01:44.68]Poets and fools fill up their pages [01:49.08] [01:50.93]What are we hoping for what do we fear [01:55.21] [01:57.41]I say we yearn to leave something that lasts [02:01.63]To be known for what little we've done [02:04.41] [02:06.62]Men tell their children the tales of their pasts [02:10.51]And each man gives his name to his son [02:13.20] [02:15.58]Something in song or in story [02:18.24] [02:19.92]Something in blood something of glory [02:24.33] [02:25.88]Something that won't fade away in a year [02:29.58] [02:32.16]Well I will not flicker and die like an ember [02:36.37]Too many men flicker and die [02:39.48] [02:41.30]I will leave something behind to remember [02:44.41] [02:45.49]Somehow I must don't ask me why [02:51.16] [02:55.03]I have no wealth at least none I can claim [02:59.30] [02:59.86]And no patience for carving in stone [03:03.48] [03:05.77]All that I have are my skill and my name [03:09.59] [03:10.75]And this chance to make both of them known [03:14.82] [03:17.36]This is my key to the portal [03:20.76] [03:22.15]How I can leave something immortal [03:26.78] [03:28.33]Something that time cannot make disappear [03:32.38] [03:34.06]Something to say I was here