Dantalian's Chariot

Madman Running Through The Fields

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Madman Running Through The Fields Lyrics

You ask me how
I've become mad now
There was a day,
I had so much say
What of my feet?
Life seemed to be sweet
I was admired
But I was so tired

Go through the dam
Lion and lamb
Know what you're sayin'?
Know what you're sayin'?

Things went okay,
And then one day, "Pow!"
I can expound
With the new words found
If reasons gone,
How do I live on?
Because I know
Which way I must go

Where can I go,
Now that I know
Time has gone by?
Time has gone by

Isn't that the madman,
Running through the fields?
Isn't that the madman?
Wonder how he feels...

You look at me,
What do you see now?
Is it so bad,
Or am I just sad?
Are you in doubt?
There is a way out
I've seen the crack
I cannot come back

I'm not afraid
Sticks out a way
Into the tide
Be by my side

Isn't that the madman,
Running through the fields?
Isn't that the madman?
Wonder how he feels...

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by mbrachman

6y ago

Nobody so far has commented on this psychedelic classic from the very short-lived Dantalian's Chariot? I've heard it said that this is just another break-up song, about a man explaining his breakdown to a friend after the collapse of a relationship. More likely, this is the mixed aftermath of a first trip- feelings of ecstasy and of profound revelation in conflict with anxiety that one has lost one's mind. Superb eerie keyboard effects and lead vocal by Zoot Money (soon to join Eric Burdon and The New Animals, who covered this song) and alternately arpeggiated and clanging guitar from Andy Summers, who went on to the Soft Machine and a brief stint also with The Animals before finding fame in the late '70s and the guitarist third of the trio The Police.

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