On the Other Side of the World

There's a blue-eyed girl

With a red bow tie

And a string of pearls

With one good eye

In a rainy town

The chimney smoke will curl

No one likes clowns

On the other side of the world

And the children know

She'll never let me go

There's a one-legged priest

That tangos with the farmer's wife

Beauty and the beast

Is taking her own life

And a tear on a letter back home

Turns into a lake of your own

And a crow turns into a girl

On the other side of the world

And she tastes like the sea

And she's waiting for me

In the spring the weeds will show

He brought back the only rose

And he gave it to his girl

On the other side of the world

And I drink champagne

From your thin blue veins

She visits his grave

Wearing her mother's shawl

Should I shave

Or end it all?

There's an old sailor song

That the children know

As their fingers curl

'Round the other side of the world

On a bone white mare

Lost in Kathleen's hair

In the spring the weeds will show

He brought back the only rose

And he gave it to his girl

On the other side of the world