David Bowie The Width of a Circle song lyrics

In the corner of the morning in the past

I would sit and blame the master first and last

All the roads were straight and narrow

And the prayers were small and yellow

And the rumor spread that I was aging fast

Then I ran across a monster who was sleeping by a tree

And I looked and frowned and looked again at me

Well, I said, "Hello and I said, "Hello"

And I asked "Why not?" and I replied "I don't know"

So we asked a simple black bird, who was happy as can be

Well, he laughed insane and quipped "Kahlil Gibran"

So I cried for all the others till the day was nearly through

For I realized that God's a young man too, yeah, yeah, yeah