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The
World's Oldest Boy*
It's Not
Looking Good*
Little Rabbit
Enjoy
The Ride*
Trillionaires
This Island Life*
Canto Del Gato*
Junior
Bandango*
Till The Sun Comes Out
Some God Forgives*
The Minister Of Shadows
Visions
Of Dulcinea*
The Minister Of Shadows (L'eminence Gris)
What a day, I must
have freed ten thousand souls
From the prison of desire
Undo my vest and watch
the evening unfold
Pour a drink and light the fire
Why do so many stop and
turn the other way
And pray that I'll leave them alone?
Don't they know
I'm here to take them home?
I know a girl who thinks a night can
last forever,
That time can't touch a painted face
I find her morals loose
and her wit by half too clever
Too old too young in any case
Does she know
I see her nearly every day?
And that her time is not her own?
My turn will
come and I will take her home
Sometimes a man can grow too
cautious
Acts like the world is made of ice
Uncertainty he finds
obnoxious
And he regrets he thinks but twice
He must know the piper always
must be paid
Life's not a gift, it's just a loan
Put down your things,
I've come to take you home
Next week I get to see old Ernie in
Havana
Cigars and rum and nothing saved
His foot is planted on the peel of
a banana
As he dances round his grave
He'll smile to show me that he's
never been afraid
And nod as if he's always known
Extend his hand to me to
take him home
This song pictures Death as an over-worked bureaucrat who wonders why we silly humans work so hard to avoid him. After all, what he wants to do is take us home. "Ernie" came from Ernest Hemingway, who had his own issues with death.