John Butler Trio

Mystery Man

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Mystery man with your mystery smile
Come on tell me something I don't already know
I've been looking around
I've been chasing these channels,
of the information age & I'm sick of this show

I've been waiting for so long
So mister won't you tell me what's going on?

Cos' now I'm gone,yes I'm gone long gone
Yes, I'm gone
Don't care if I'm right or wrong

round-we-go round-we-go round-we-go in circles
I wonder what all the commotion's about
Thieving and loving and warring and rutting
We're all just the same on this merry-go-round

I've been waiting for so long
So mister won't you tell me what's going on?

Cos' now I'm gone,yes I'm gone long gone
Yes, I'm gone
Don't care if I'm right or wrong

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by jbtdmb

15y ago

i think that the mystery man is god, and the singer is a person questioning that there is a god because of all the evil in the world, and because his question isn't answered he stops caring and just moves away from religion...just my thought

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by jackcooksonmusic 15y ago

I think you've got the right idea, (I don't know if JB believes in God), but I think he's just singing from a point of view that Christian's go through all the time, rather than turning away from religion completely. JB is saying through this song that he has acknowledged he needs a connection with God but it is so hard to keep this connection going, especially when he's living in a world where people are constantly trying to fill the 'God shaped hole' in their life with drugs, sex and alcohol (amongst 1000's of other things) in their pursuit...

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